Everyone uses it. Almost nobody can define it. In the next 28 minutes, you'll fix that — and probably know more about artificial intelligence than 95% of the people you'll meet this week.
Begin the journeyTuesday, 7:43 AM. You haven't even brushed your teeth. Tap each moment below — the AI hiding in plain sight will reveal itself.
Three definitions, three lenses. Click each card to flip it and see the version that finally makes sense.
These terms get thrown around like they're interchangeable. They're not. Hover or click each ring to see how they fit together.
The whole umbrella. Any technique that makes machines act "smart" — including old-school rule-based systems that don't learn anything. Chess engines from 1980, your thermostat's logic, modern chatbots — all AI.
Every AI you've ever used is "narrow." Every AI in a sci-fi movie is "general." Understanding the difference is the most important distinction in this entire course.
Brilliant at one thing. Useless at everything else.
As capable as a human at any intellectual task.
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AI isn't new. It's been quietly evolving for 75 years through three winters, several false dawns, and a handful of moments that changed everything. Scroll the timeline →
Alan Turing asks: "Can machines think?" Proposes a test that still haunts AI 75 years later.
At Dartmouth College, a summer workshop names the field "Artificial Intelligence." Founders predicted human-level AI by 1970. Oops.
A rule-based psychotherapist that fooled real people — using nothing but pattern matching.
IBM's chess machine defeats the world champion. Chess, supposedly the pinnacle of human reasoning, falls.
IBM's Watson dominates human champions. Natural language is no longer safe ground.
AlexNet shatters image-recognition records using neural networks and GPUs. Modern AI begins.
DeepMind's AI conquers Go — a game with more possible positions than atoms in the universe.
Google researchers publish the Transformer paper. Every modern chatbot you know was born here.
100 million users in 2 months. The fastest-growing consumer product in history.
AI stops just answering. It starts doing — booking, coding, researching, deciding. We're here.
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Wrong answers don't hurt your grade — they explain themselves. Try to beat 4/5.
You learned the difference between AI, ML, DL and GenAI. You can spot narrow versus general AI. You know the timeline. That's a solid foundation — and we're just getting started.
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