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AI isn't one thing — it's an umbrella term for systems that perform tasks normally requiring human judgment, most of them today built by finding statistical patterns in huge amounts of data.
An LLM doesn't look anything up when it answers you — it's predicting the next word, one token at a time, based on patterns learned from enormous amounts of text.
Deep learning isn't a rival to machine learning — it's a specific type of machine learning built from many-layered neural networks that learn their own features from raw data.
A neural network is a stack of simple multiply-add-and-squash steps whose millions of weights get nudged, example by example, until its guesses stop being wrong. It doesn't think the way a brain does.
Most AI image generators don't paste together stored photos. They start from pure random noise and remove it step by step, steered by your text prompt, using patterns learned from millions of captioned images.
An AI hallucination is a confident, fluent answer that isn't supported by facts. It happens because chatbots predict likely words rather than look facts up, and it sounds just as sure either way.
A chatbot is built in stages. First a model learns to predict text from a huge pile of writing. Then people teach it to follow instructions and rank its answers, which is where most of its helpful, polite behavior comes from.
Prompt engineering is writing the input so a language model has the context, examples and format it needs. It shapes the model's guess; it can't add knowledge.
A chatbot answers and stops; an AI agent runs a loop, choosing tools, acting, checking results and deciding the next step until the goal is met or it gives up.
No tool can reliably prove text was written by AI. Detectors guess from word patterns and wrongly flag real people. Provenance, sources and checkable facts tell you far more.