What is the difference between AI, machine learning and deep learning?

AI is the broad field of making machines act intelligently. Machine learning is a method within AI where computers learn from data. Deep learning is a type of machine learning that uses large neural networks.

Think of them as nested circles, each inside the one before.

Artificial intelligence

The umbrella term. It includes anything from simple rule-based systems to advanced chatbots.

Machine learning

Instead of being programmed with rules, the system finds patterns in examples, such as spam filters learning from labelled emails.

Deep learning

Uses many-layered neural networks and is behind speech recognition, image recognition and modern language models. It usually needs a lot of data and computing power.