What Is AI? From Rules to Reasoning Machines

The working definitions of AI that laws actually use, how machines learn, why generative AI changed everything, and what these systems still cannot do.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. Machines that infer
  2. How machines learn
  3. The generative turn
  4. Agents and the autonomy spectrum
  5. What AI cannot do — and the myths that follow