AI is a broad term referring to computers and systems that are capable of, essentially, coming up with solutions to problems on their own. The solutions are not hardcoded into the program; instead, the information needed to get to the solution is coded, and AI (used often in medical diagnostics) uses the data and calculations to come up with a solution on its own.

One of the daily-life AI examples is seen on online portals like Amazon, Netflix, and others. AI accomplishes a useful task by recommending music and movies based on the interests you have expressed and judgments you have made in the past. By monitoring the choices you make and inserting them into a learning algorithm, these apps recommend that which you are likely to be interested in:

As depicted in the preceding diagram, AI is the superset of the listed components, and so, it's a vast area to explore.