AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, which is an umbrella term representing a range of techniques that allow machines to mimic or exceed human intelligence. AI is a machines ability to perform cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with an environment, problem-solving, and even exercising creativity. AI can be divided into three widely accepted subcategories: narrow AI, general AI, and super AI.

• Narrow AI: This category includes intelligent systems that have been designed or trained to carry out specific tasks or solve particular problems, without being explicitly designed to do so. Examples of narrow AI include voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, image-recognition systems, technologies that respond to simple customer service requests, and tools that flag inappropriate content online.

• General AI: This type of intelligence is still a hypothetical concept as it involves a machine understanding and performing vastly different tasks based on its accumulated experience. AGI systems would be able to reason and think like a human, potentially understanding any intellectual task, thinking abstractly, and learning from its experiences.

• Super AI: This is a future concept of AI that far surpasses the human brains ability to understand it or how it is shaping our reality. It remains within the realm of science fiction, though some developers are working on the problem.

AI has become a catchall term for applications that perform complex tasks that once required human input, such as communicating with customers online or playing chess.