A single sentence can summarize the complexities of modern artificial intelligence: Machine learning systems use computing power to execute algorithms that learn from data. Everything that national security policymakers truly need to know about a technology that seems simultaneously trendy, powerful, and mysterious is captured in those 13 words. They specify a paradigm for modern AI—machine learning—in which machines draw their own insights from data, unlike the human-driven expert systems of the past. 

The same sentence also introduces the AI triad of algorithms, data, and computing power. Each element is vital to the power of machine learning systems, though their relative priority changes based on technological developments.

Source:

https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-AI-Triad-Report.pdf

Narrated for AI Safety Fundamentals by Perrin Walker of TYPE III AUDIO.

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