Probably everyone consciously or unconsciously uses programs that are described by the term "artificial intelligence" (AI). These programs require a large amount of data, the values of which they store in a cleverly summarized form. This process is called "machine learning". Once the program has learned in this way, it can predict other data. This often seems "intelligent" to us. Is it really intelligent or is the background just so complicated that we don't understand it spontaneously?

 

Article MNU J. 6 (2024) (in German) with online supplements
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