Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that enables computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognizing patterns, solving problems, making decisions, and even learning from experience.
AI is not a single tool, but rather a range of methods and applications, for example:
- Machine Learning (ML) - teaching computers to learn from data
- Large Language Models (LLM) - trained on massive text to understand and generate language
- Generative AI (GenAI) - create new content such as text, images, code, audio, and video
- Agentic AI - A goal-driven AI that can plan, reason and take actions anonymously within complex tasks
Its applications range widely from chatbots that simulate conversation and answer questions and to advance data analysis that help uncover insights and predict future trends.
Related Resources
- See the list of Available AI tools and platforms at McGill
- Refer to the AI Guidelines and best practices
- Build your AI skills
- For definitions of key terms, you can refer to the glossary
