AI

Artificial intelligence, usually shortened to AI, is a broad label. A map app that predicts traffic, a filter that flags a photo, and a chatbot that writes a paragraph are all called AI. What they share is a system that produces an output from data, rather than only reading a script a person typed in advance.

The OECD describes an AI system as a machine-based system that infers, from inputs, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions. That definition is wider than chat. When people say AI at the dinner table, they usually mean a chatbot. The glossary keeps the wider meaning and uses other entries for the chat, the model, and the risks.

Kids meet AI inside homework tools, photo apps, games, and search. The word on the box does not say whether a parent can see the chat, whether there are ads, or whether the reply is allowed to invent a fact. Those are product choices.

Schools are writing rules for the same tools. A definition that stays plain helps a family and a faculty meeting talk about the same thing: software that generates an output, with an adult who can check it.

AI on HeyOtto is Otto, the assistant, used for school, research, and creating. A parent creates the account for ages 8–18 and can read the chats. The child does not self-enroll. There are no ads, and chats are not sold or used to train other models.