Overview: Introduction to AI and Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad field encompassing various machine learning, logic, and knowledge-based techniques and approaches to create systems that can perform tasks typically performed by humans or require human cognitive abilities. This includes tasks such as natural language processing, image recognition, problem-solving, and decision-making. As per the European Union’s AI Act and OECD Report on AI Risk Management, an AI system is a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers from the input it receives how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments.