Artificial Intelligence Glossary

Technology that mimics human intelligence—like recognizing patterns, understanding language, or making decisions.

A computer program trained to make decisions or perform specific tasks based on data.

A type of AI trained on large amounts of text so it can generate new writing, summarize, or answer questions.

When an AI generates false or made-up information that sounds believable.

When AI gives unfair or limited results because the training data wasn’t diverse or balanced.

A list of numbers that represents a word’s meaning so the AI can measure how similar words are.

A system of connected “nodes” (like brain cells) that learns patterns and relationships.

A process that helps AI focus on the most important words or parts of data in context.

The small chunks of text AI reads—words, parts of words, or punctuation.

The first phase where AI learns general patterns from huge text datasets before fine-tuning.