Making sense of AI taxonomy


I have been looking for diagrams that classify AI types, methods, and definitions. The closest I came to finding one was this article. It feels like no one agreed on the definitions. Every diagram differs from one source to another. Instead of helping me understand the field as a whole, it confused me even more.

I decided to make my own, with Wikipedia, React Flow and time.

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I am certain there are many things I have missed, but this was my first step toward understanding the big picture. If you spot any mistakes, please feel free to contact me at me@kaonashi.dev.

Some thoughts after doing this exercise: AI taxonomy should be a huge graph with connections going in all directions, or lots and lots of smaller diagrams. Here I mixed paradigms, architectures, models, learning methods and so on so I could make a mental map of it all.

AI Taxonomy

Node Types
paradigm
learning
architecture
model family
generative model families
system
method
system composition
transformer family
model