How Can a Computer Be Smarter Than You?

Imagine a computer like a student who practices problems over and over until it gets really good. That's artificial intelligence, the way computers can learn from experience, just like you do when you study for a test. If a computer plays chess and keeps getting better at it by learning from each game, that’s machine learning, which is one part of AI.

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  1. A computer that learns to beat you at checkers after playing many games
  2. A phone that recognizes your face because it saw pictures of you every day
  3. A robot that knows which fruit is an apple and which is a banana

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