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AI Agent An AI agent is an AI system that can pursue a goal by planning steps and taking actions, rather than only… AI Alignment AI alignment is the effort to make AI systems pursue the goals and values their designers and users intend… AI Bias AI bias occurs when an AI system produces results that are systematically unfair to certain people or groups… AI Hallucination An AI hallucination is output from an AI model that sounds confident and plausible but is false, unsupported… Algorithm An algorithm is a finite, step-by-step set of instructions for solving a problem or completing a task… API (Application Programming Interface) An API (application programming interface) is a defined way for one piece of software to request data or… Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical form of AI that could understand, learn, and perform… Artificial Intelligence (AI) Artificial intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science focused on building systems that perform tasks… Automation Automation is the use of technology to perform tasks with little or no human intervention. It ranges from…

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Chatbot A chatbot is a software application that holds a conversation with people through text or voice. Simple… Context Window A context window is the maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that an AI language model can consider at…

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Deep Learning Deep learning is a type of machine learning that uses neural networks with many layers to learn complex… Deepfake A deepfake is an image, video, or audio recording created or altered with AI to realistically show someone…

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Embedding (AI) In AI, an embedding is a list of numbers (a vector) that represents a piece of content — such as a word…

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Fine-Tuning Fine-tuning is the process of taking an AI model that has already been trained on broad data and training it…

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Generative AI Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that create new content — such as text, images… GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a type of large language model. “Generative” means it…

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Inference (AI) In AI, inference is the stage where a trained model is used to make predictions or generate output from new…

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Large Language Model (LLM) A large language model (LLM) is an AI model trained on very large amounts of text to understand and generate…

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Machine Learning Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence in which computers learn patterns from data instead… Model Parameters (AI) In AI, parameters are the internal numerical values — mainly the weights of a neural network’s…

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) Natural language processing (NLP) is the area of artificial intelligence that enables computers to… Neural Network A neural network is a computing model loosely inspired by the brain, made of layers of connected units called…

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Overfitting Overfitting happens when a machine learning model learns its training data too closely — including noise…

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Prompt In AI, a prompt is the input — usually text, sometimes images or files — that a person gives a generative… Prompt Engineering Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and refining prompts so that a generative AI model produces…

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Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning in which an agent learns by trial and error, taking… Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a technique in which an AI system first searches a set of documents…

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Supervised Learning Supervised learning is a type of machine learning in which a model is trained on labeled examples — inputs…

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Temperature (AI) In AI language models, temperature is a setting that controls how random the output is. A low temperature… Token (AI) In AI language models, a token is a small unit of text — often a whole word, part of a word, or a… Training Data Training data is the collection of examples used to teach a machine learning model — such as text, images… Transformer (AI Model) A transformer is a neural network architecture, introduced in 2017, that processes sequences such as text…

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Unsupervised Learning Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning that finds patterns and structure in data without labeled…
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