The AI Glossary You Need to Stay Informed

Here are some new words for the budding AI enthusiast! Dive in!

With terms like “transformer models” and “natural language processing” becoming everyday vocabulary, CNET has compiled a glossary of 48 essential AI terms. This guide aims to help users better understand AI technologies and their impact on society. From basic to advanced terms, it offers insights for both beginners and enthusiasts.

Here’s a few of the key terms you can find in the full article:

artificial general intelligence, or AGI: A concept that suggests a more advanced version of AI than we know today, one that can perform tasks much better than humans while also teaching and advancing its own capabilities.

chatbot: A program that communicates with humans through text that simulates human language.

generative AI: A content-generating technology that uses AI to create text, video, computer code or images. The AI is fed large amounts of training data, finds patterns to generate its own novel responses, which can sometimes be similar to the source material.

prompt chaining: The ability of AI to use information from previous interactions to color future responses.

temperature: Parameters set to control how random a language model’s output is. A higher temperature means the model takes more risks.

Turing test: Named after famed mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, it tests a machine’s ability to behave like a human. The machine passes if a human can’t distinguish the machine’s response from another human.

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