AI Glossary
Comprehensive dictionary of AI terms and concepts explained in plain language.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Category: Fundamentals | Level: Beginner
The simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems.
Machine Learning (ML)
Category: Fundamentals | Level: Beginner
A subset of AI that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.
Deep Learning
Category: Techniques | Level: Intermediate
A subset of machine learning that uses neural networks with many layers (hence 'deep') to analyze various factors of data.
Neural Network
Category: Techniques | Level: Intermediate
Computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains, designed to recognize patterns.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Category: Applications | Level: Intermediate
A field of AI that gives computers the ability to understand text and spoken words in the same way humans can.
Large Language Model (LLM)
Category: Applications | Level: Intermediate
A type of AI model trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like text.
Prompt Engineering
Category: Techniques | Level: Beginner
The process of designing effective inputs (prompts) for AI systems to get desired outputs.
Generative AI
Category: Applications | Level: Beginner
AI systems that can generate new content, such as text, images, audio, or video, based on what they've learned from existing data.
Transformer
Category: Techniques | Level: Advanced
A deep learning model architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms, forming the basis for many modern language models.
Fine-tuning
Category: Techniques | Level: Advanced
The process of taking a pre-trained model and further training it on a specific dataset for a particular task.
Reinforcement Learning
Category: Techniques | Level: Advanced
A type of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by taking actions in an environment to maximize some notion of reward.
Computer Vision
Category: Applications | Level: Intermediate
A field of AI that enables computers to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos, and other visual inputs.