Machine learning, which was coined in 1959, is a subfield of AI that involves the creation of programs that perform actions without explicit instructions.
ML is divided into three categories: Supervised Learning, which learns from labelled data; Unsupervised Learning, which identifies patterns in unlabelled data; and Reinforcement Learning, which learns from interacting with the environment.
Deep Learning (DL), inspired by the workings of the human brain, involves the use of artificial neural networks to analyse different factors of data.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is another AI field that involves machine interaction with human language.
Computer Vision (CV) is a subset of AI that allows computers to perceive the world around them by learning to grasp high-level awareness from digital images and videos.
Robotics is a branch of AI that uses engineering to design machines that can interact with the physical world, often integrating with other AI fields such as CV and NLP.
Expert Systems are AI programs that imitate an expert’s decision-making skills; they are the first successful types of AI software.
Weak AI solves specific issues as compared to Strong AI that matches or outperforms human intelligence across a range of cognitive tasks.
The Turing Test is a practical method to determine machine intelligence that involves a human interrogator and two participants: a human and a machine.
Artificial consciousness, or machine consciousness, is when non-biological systems exhibit consciousness, which has made people wonder if said systems should have rights and moral standing.