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  • Artificial intelligence - Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the field of building and studying computational systems that perform tasks involving abilities such as perception...
  • Generative AI - Generative AI is artificial intelligence that produces content, such as text, pictures, audio, video or computer code, using patterns learned from data.
  • Large language model - A large language model, or LLM, is a machine-learning model trained on extensive language data to learn patterns that help it process or generate language.
  • Token - A token is a unit of information that an AI model processes.
  • AI agent - An AI agent is a system that uses information about its environment to choose and carry out actions towards a task or objective.
  • Machine learning - Machine learning is the study and practice of creating systems that learn useful patterns from data or experience to perform a task.
  • Context window - A context window is the limited amount of information a language model can work with in a particular generation.
  • Hallucination - In AI, a hallucination is generated content that is false, unsupported or inconsistent with the information it is supposed to reflect, often presented...
  • Prompt engineering - Prompt engineering is the deliberate design and testing of instructions given to an AI model.
  • Retrieval-augmented generation - Retrieval-augmented generation, usually shortened to RAG, is a way of giving an AI model relevant information before it generates an answer.

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  • Hallucination - In AI, a hallucination is generated content that is false, unsupported or inconsistent with the information it is supposed to reflect, often presented...
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  • Artificial intelligence - Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the field of building and studying computational systems that perform tasks involving abilities such as perception...
  • Componential analysis - Componential analysis is an approach to word meaning that describes lexical items through smaller semantic features or components.
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  • Uncertainty - Uncertainty is the presence of unresolved possibilities about an outcome, quantity, explanation, or state of the world given the available information.
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