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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Narrow AI
Narrow AI is designed to perform a limited class of tasks rather than behave like a general human intelligence.
Think of it like
Think of Narrow AI as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Narrow AI somewhere inside.
SRE lens
A log anomaly detector can be excellent at anomaly detection while knowing nothing about payroll.
Remember thisNarrow AI is designed to perform a limited class of tasks rather than behave like a general human intelligence.