Explainer: the difference between AI, machine learning, and 'LLMs'

These terms get mixed up constantly. Here's a clean map.

Think of nested circles:

• AI — the broad goal of machines doing tasks that need intelligence.
• Machine learning — a subset of AI that learns from data.
• Deep learning — a subset of ML using large neural networks.
• LLMs (large language models) — deep-learning models trained on huge text to understand and generate language.

So an LLM is a kind of deep learning, which is a kind of machine learning, which is a kind of AI. Clearer? Ask about any layer and we'll go deeper.