Terminology – AI, ML, DL, and GenAI

Here, we describe how the terms AI and ML relate to each other. It should be noted that these terms are often used interchangeably, as well as the abbreviated term, AI/ML, which serves as an umbrella term to encapsulate both AI and ML. We also describe how the terms DL and GenAI fit in under the umbrella of AI/ML.

We’ll begin by briefly including officially-accepted definitions of the terms AI and ML. We have chosen to include definitions from the Collins English Dictionary, in which AI is defined as “a type of computer technology concerned with making machines work in an intelligent way, similar to the way that the human mind works” and ML is defined as “a branch of artificial intelligence in which a computer generates rules underlying or based on raw data that has been fed into it.” The term DL has not yet been officially included as a dictionary term, but the Collins English Dictionary lists it as a...