{"675258":{"#nid":"675258","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What IS Artificial Intelligence?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s tempting to think that the artificial intelligence revolution is coming \u2014 for good or ill \u2014 and that AI will soon be baked into every facet of our lives. With generative AI tools suddenly available to anyone and seemingly every company scrambling to leverage AI for their business, it can feel like the AI-dominated future is just over the horizon.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe truth is, that future is already here. Most of us just didn\u2019t notice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery time you unlock your smartphone or computer with a face scan or fingerprint. Every time your car alerts you that you\u2019re straying from your lane or automatically adjusts your cruise control speed. Every time you ask Siri for directions or Alexa to turn on some music. Every time you start typing in the Google search box and suggestions or the outright answer to your question appear. Every time Netflix recommends what you should watch next.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll driven by AI. And all a regular part of most people\u2019s days.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut what is \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d? What about \u201cmachine learning\u201d and \u201calgorithms\u201d? How are they different and how do they work?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe asked two of the many Georgia Tech engineers working in these areas to help us understand the basic concepts so we\u2019re all better prepared for the AI future \u2014 er, present.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/magazine\/2024\/spring\/what-is-artificial-intelligence\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full crash course on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis story was featured in the spring 2024 issue of \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/magazine\u0022\u003EHelluva Engineer\u003Cem\u003E magazine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, produced biannually by the College of Engineering.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEngineers working in machine learning and AI offer a crash course in the basic concepts and buzzwords that have moved from the lab to everyday life.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Engineers working in machine learning and AI offer a crash course in the basic concepts and buzzwords that have moved from the lab to everyday life."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2024-06-27 20:11:28","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 15:49:52","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674255":{"id":"674255","type":"image","title":"AI-101-Helluva-Engineer-magazine.jpg","body":null,"created":"1719519097","gmt_created":"2024-06-27 20:11:37","changed":"1719519097","gmt_changed":"2024-06-27 20:11:37","alt":"An AI generated image of a humanoid robot looking at a futuristic city","file":{"fid":"257749","name":"AI-101-Helluva-Engineer-magazine.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/AI-101-Helluva-Engineer-magazine.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/AI-101-Helluva-Engineer-magazine.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":715210,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/27\/AI-101-Helluva-Engineer-magazine.jpg?itok=5BjEjPSq"}}},"media_ids":["674255"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/magazine","title":"Helluva Engineer magazine"}],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}