AI-powered
In plain wordsDescribed as using artificial intelligence to work. The label appears on everything from search engines to toothbrushes and often says little about how much AI is really involved.
Using artificial intelligenceartificial intelligence, n.: Computer systems that do things we would normally credit to a thinking mind, such as holding a conversation, reading an X-ray or planning a route, and the field of research that builds them., today usually machine learningmachine learning, n.: A way of building software that learns from examples instead of following rules written by a programmer. Shown thousands of labeled photos, for instance, a program can learn to recognize cats. or generative AIgenerative AI, n.: AI that produces something new on request, such as an essay, a picture, a song or a piece of code, having absorbed from enormous numbers of existing examples what such things typically look like., as a significant component of a product, service or process. The adjective is mainly a marketing label with no technical or legal definition: it may describe a product built around a large language modellarge language model, n.: A computer program trained on enormous amounts of text to predict the words that come next. At vast scale, that simple skill lets it chat, answer questions, translate, summarize and write code., a conventional application with one machine-learning feature, or software that uses no learning at all. Because inflated AI claims can mislead consumers and investors, regulators have pursued AI washingAI washing, n.: Falsely claiming that a product or company uses AI, or exaggerating how much it does, to look more advanced and attract customers or investors.: in 2024 the US Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against two investment advisers over false AI claims, and the Federal Trade Commission announced a crackdown on deceptive AI marketing called Operation AI Comply.
The brochure calls the thermostat AI-powered, but it just follows a fixed schedule.
Origin
Formed on the model of compounds such as 'battery-powered' and 'computer-powered'. It spread through technology marketing in the 2010s alongside 'AI-driven' and 'AI-enabled', and became ubiquitous after 2023 as companies relaunched products around generative AI.
Usage note
Readers should ask what the AI component actually does and how it was evaluated. For products built from the ground up around AI, AI-nativeAI-native, adj.: Describes a product, company or person built around AI from the start, rather than one that added AI features to older ways of working. is the newer label.
Related
- AI washingAI washing, n.: Falsely claiming that a product or company uses AI, or exaggerating how much it does, to look more advanced and attract customers or investors.
- AI hypeAI hype, n.: Exaggerated claims about what AI can do or will soon do, made to attract money, attention or customers, which can mislead the public and policymakers.
- AI applicationAI application, n.: A program or product that uses AI to do something useful for people, such as a translation app, a medical-scan checker or a coding assistant.
- AI-nativeAI-native, adj.: Describes a product, company or person built around AI from the start, rather than one that added AI features to older ways of working.
- artificial intelligenceartificial intelligence, n.: Computer systems that do things we would normally credit to a thinking mind, such as holding a conversation, reading an X-ray or planning a route, and the field of research that builds them.
- rule-based systemrule-based system, n.: A computer system that makes decisions by following a list of 'if… then…' rules written by people, rather than by learning from examples.
Mentioned in
AI applicationAI application, n.: A program or product that uses AI to do something useful for people, such as a translation app, a medical-scan checker or a coding assistant., AI washingAI washing, n.: Falsely claiming that a product or company uses AI, or exaggerating how much it does, to look more advanced and attract customers or investors.