{"id":6701,"date":"2023-08-11T18:52:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:10:44","slug":"how-does-ai-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/privacy-and-safety\/how-does-ai-work","title":{"rendered":"How Does AI Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main-content\" data-grid=\"col-12\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph-3\">With <a href=\"\/en-us\/microsoft-365-life-hacks\/writing\/ai-chat-bot-chatgpt-taking-the-world-by-storm\">artificial intelligence (AI) becoming more and more common <\/a>in our everyday lives, you might be wondering, \u201cHow does AI work?\u201d While the algorithms are incredibly complex to write, the concept isn\u2019t too difficult to understand. 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