The following is Google's official help answer:
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And what is being described there is system using algorithms trained on the various elements for it to make guesses about what you are wanting to do: shop for food, read an email, or shoot a load into a kleenex. And based upon your responses, training the system to what you want, it learns better over time to give you the autofill you want and quicker. That's AI.
AI has been around for longer than most of us on F95 have been alive. Since the 1950s. You are talking about LLM AI and Generative AI - which are newer, yes. But that algorithm you are talking about is a basic form of AI. Here's a quick tutorial:
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Oh, look what the answer includes when given the question
What is artificial intelligence?
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is a specialty within computer science that is concerned with creating systems that can replicate human intelligence and
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. They do this by taking in a myriad of data, processing it, and learning from their past in order to streamline and improve in the future.
Which is what I've been fucking saying... seems AI can be trained but some people are a bit harder to train.