Week 1 - Mini Project - Interact with My AI

Using ChatGPT, I prompted it to re-explain the following terms with a new analogy, and I will say that I am impressed with the results. Below is its output (non-edited):

1) Artificial Intelligence (AI)

New analogy: AI is like electricity for thinking—once you have it, you can power lots of different “mental appliances” (recommendations, vision, planning) across every room of the house.

2) Machine Learning (ML)

New analogy: ML is a thermostat with a memory. It watches how you adjust the temperature, learns your habits, and starts setting the room just right without being told each time.

3) Neural Networks

New analogy: Picture layers of airport security. Each checkpoint (layer) checks for something different—IDs, liquids, shoes—and only what passes all checks gets through as the final decision.

4) Deep Learning

New analogy: A multi-stage car wash for data. Each station scrubs a different kind of grime, and after enough passes, the pattern (the “car”) comes out crystal clear.

5) Generative AI

New analogy: A jazz improviser who’s listened to millions of songs. It riffs new melodies (text, images, audio) that feel familiar yet original.

6) Large Language Models (LLMs)

New analogy: A supercharged predictive keyboard trained on a giant library. You start a sentence; it can keep going—informal, academic, funny—on cue.

7) AI Wrappers

New analogy: A smoothie bar using an industrial blender in the back. The wrapper is the menu and friendly counter; the heavy-duty blender (the base model) is hidden but does the real mixing.

8) Open-Source vs Closed-Source AI

New analogy:

Open-source: A community workshop with tools everyone can inspect and modify.

Closed-source: A private studio—great equipment inside, but only the owner can change how it works.

9) Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

New analogy: The ultimate cross-trained teammate—give it a new role today (chef), a different one tomorrow (engineer), and it learns both well enough to work beside you.

10) Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)

New analogy: A brain that plays every game at grandmaster level simultaneously—chess, music composition, drug discovery—thinking faster and wider than any team of humans.

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