AI in Everyday Life
This popular AI assistant from Apple can set reminders, send texts, and answer questions using your voice.
What is Siri?
This two-word phrase refers to computers or machines doing tasks that normally require human intelligence, like understanding language or recognizing images.
What is artificial intelligence? (or AI)
AI that helps workers finish tasks faster improves workplace ___.
What is productivity?
When AI turns spoken words into written text, like live captions on a video, it’s doing this.
What is speech recognition?
Making sure AI is used fairly and responsibly is called AI ___.
On Netflix and Spotify, this type of AI feature suggests shows or songs you might like based on what you’ve already watched or listened to.
What is a recommendation system?
This is the term for teaching a computer using lots of examples, instead of giving it step-by-step rules.
What is machine learning?
AI can take over boring, repetitive tasks so employees can focus on more important ___.
What is responsibilities/tasks?
When you ask your phone, “What’s the weather today?” and it answers in full sentences, it’s using this ability to understand and respond to human language.
What is natural language processing (or NLP)?
The term for keeping people’s personal or sensitive information safe when using AI tools at work.
What is data privacy?
When your email automatically moves certain messages into a “Spam” folder, it’s using this kind of technology.
What is spam filtering (or email filtering AI)?
When an AI generates text, images, or music that didn’t exist before, we call it this type of AI.
What is generative AI?
Using AI to help train employees or teach new skills supports staff ___.
What is training/development?
An AI that can find objects like “dogs,” “cars,” or “stop signs” inside a photo is doing this kind of task.
What is object detection (or image recognition)?
When AI gives unfair results because of past data, we call this AI ___.
What is discrimination/bias?
Face ID on smartphones uses this kind of AI task to recognize who is trying to unlock the device.
What is facial recognition?
This kind of “model” that powers many chatbots, including tools like me, is called an LLM. LLM stands for this.
What is a large language model?
When AI helps teams communicate or coordinate projects more smoothly, it improves workplace ___.
What is collaboration?
These AI tools, like DALL·E or Midjourney, can create a brand-new picture just from a written description.
What is a text-to-image model (or image generator)?
What is the long-term workplace problem that happens when employees rely too much on automation and gradually lose skills they once used regularly?
What is deskilling?
When a website shows you a chat window that answers questions like a human support agent, it’s usually powered by this type of AI tool.
What is a chatbot (or AI chatbot)?
This is the general term for the data (like photos, messages, or numbers) that AI systems learn from.
What is training data?
AI that predicts problems before they happen, like delays or errors, is helping with workplace ___.
What is forecasting?
When an AI can analyze photos or scans of handwriting and turn them into editable text on a computer, it is using this specific technique.
What is optical character recognition (OCR)?
Automation that predicts when a machine will break and fixes problems early is called ___ ______?
What is predictive maintenance?