Understanding artificial intelligence correctly

Q: What is artificial intelligence (AI)?

Answer: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology that enables computers or electronic devices to “learn,” “analyze,” and “make decisions” based on data, simulating the way humans think, but in a machine-specific way.

You can imagine AI as an electronic brain that is programmed to process information, analyze data, and perform intelligent tasks. However, AI does not necessarily have to be the robots you often see in science fiction movies.

In fact, AI can be just software running on your phone, computer, or other smart devices you use every day. For example, when you chat with a virtual assistant like Siri or Google Assistant, or when Facebook automatically suggests friends, that is AI at work.

To work effectively, AI needs to be provided with a large amount of data to “learn”. Mr. Phan Phu Thuan, Cyber ​​Security expert, FPT Smart Cloud - a member of FPT Group, gave an example: “If you want AI to recognize faces, it will be “trained” with thousands of different facial photos.

Once it has data, AI uses algorithms — like complex mathematical formulas — to analyze it and find patterns, rules, or relationships in that data. This process is called “machine learning.” The more data it is fed and the more thoroughly it is trained, the smarter and more accurate it becomes.

Or we can also imagine AI working like you teach a child to recognize apples and oranges. You show the child many pictures of these two fruits and explain the characteristics of each. Gradually, the child will learn to distinguish and correctly name each fruit when seeing it.

It can be seen that AI is a technology that helps computers become smarter, capable of doing things that previously only humans could do, such as understanding language, recognizing images, predicting trends or creating new content...

Question: We often hear about Generative AI, AI Agent and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), these are three important terms in the field of artificial intelligence. So how should we understand these concepts correctly and easily?

A: Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content such as text, images, music or videos based on the data it has learned. You can think of it as a “digital artist” that can create new works from what it already knows.

For example, ChatGPT can write articles, answer questions, or compose poems; Midjourney can generate artistic images from text descriptions. Generative AI is now widely used in many creative and media fields.

AI Agents are AI programs or systems designed to automatically perform tasks or interact with the environment to achieve a certain goal. For example, chatbots that answer customers, or software that helps you organize emails. AI Agents can be viewed as “intelligent assistants” that help people handle repetitive tasks or require quick responses.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the concept of a type of AI that has the ability to learn, understand and perform all the intellectual tasks that humans can do - with a level of flexibility and creativity equivalent to or surpassing humans. AGI is considered the "omnipotent brain" of the future. AGI is still a long-term goal in research, because most current AI systems can often solve specific tasks well, not reaching the level of general thinking like humans.

The AI ​​ecosystem can be generalized as a multi-functional team: “artists” (Generative AI) create creative content, “intelligent assistants” (AI Agent) support daily work processing and “all-powerful brains” in the future (AGI) can do everything like humans. Obviously, the strong development and increasing usefulness of AI technology has raised the question: Will humans become unemployed when AI is capable of replacing humans in many jobs? According to Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, Chairman of the AI ​​Ethics Committee of VINASA: “Artificial intelligence is a type of machine, created by humans to serve themselves.

Artificial intelligence is a part of human intelligence. Machines or artificial intelligence do not stop human evolution. On the contrary, society will certainly develop further.”

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