According to Britannica "artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. Since their development in the 1940s, digital computers have been programmed to carry out very complex tasks—such as discovering proofs for mathematical theorems or playing chess—with great proficiency. Despite continuing advances in computer processing speed and memory capacity, there are as yet no programs that can match full human flexibility over wider domains or in tasks requiring much everyday knowledge. On the other hand, some programs have attained the performance levels of human experts and professionals in executing certain specific tasks, so that artificial intelligence in this limited sense is found in applications as diverse as medical diagnosis, computer search engines, voice or handwriting recognition, and chatbots.'

Artificial Intelligence (Oxford Reference) - "The design of hypothetical or actual computer programs or machines to do things normally done by minds, such as playing chess, thinking logically, writing poetry, composing music, or analysing chemical substances. The most challenging problems arise in attempting to simulate functions of intelligence that are largely unconscious, such as those involved in vision and language. The term was introduced in 1956 by the US computer engineer John McCarthy (1927–2011)."

As technology develops, so too do the ways we define it. There is no single or fixed definition of AI, but there is common agreement that machines based on AI “are potentially capable of imitating or even exceeding human cognitive capacities, including sensing, language interaction, reasoning and analysis, problem solving, and even creativity.”

A subset of artificial intelligence (AI)  is machine learning (ML), a concept that computer programs can automatically learn from and adapt to new data without human assistance.

What is generative AI?

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can generate text, images, videos, and other content in response to a user prompt, based on its training data.

Generative artificial intelligence tools are rapidly advancing and significantly influencing education and research.

This guide offers insights on using generative AI ethically, creatively, and evaluatively.