Chapter 3: What is AI? 3. What is AI? Our preliminary definition of AI as automation based on associations requires elaboration. Below we address three additional perspectives on what constitutes AI. Educators will find these different perspectives arise in the marketing of AI functionality and are important to understand when evaluating edtech systems that incorporate AI. One useful glossary of AI for Education terms is the CIRCLS Glossary of Artificial Intelligence Terms for Educators. AI is not one thing but an umbrella term for a growing set of modeling capabilities, as visualized in Figure 3. Figure 3: Components, types, and subfields of AI based on Regona et al (2022). P a g e | 19
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