AI Glossary
Over 35 terms from the world of artificial intelligence — explained clearly, for beginners and experts.
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AI Agent beginner
A software program powered by AI that can independently perform tasks on behalf of a user. An AI agent receives a goal, breaks it down into steps, executes them using available too...
AI Strategy beginner
A plan that defines how an organization will use AI to achieve business goals. A good AI strategy covers: which problems to solve with AI, what data and infrastructure are needed, ...
AI-Native beginner
An organization, product, or workflow that is designed from the ground up with AI as a core component — not added as an afterthought. AI-native companies treat AI as the foundation...
API (Application Programming Interface) beginner
A standardized way for software systems to communicate with each other. AI APIs allow developers to add AI capabilities to their applications without building models from scratch. ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) beginner
The ability of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence — such as understanding language, recognizing images, making decisions, and learning from ...
Bias (in AI) beginner
Systematic errors in AI systems that lead to unfair outcomes for certain groups of people. Bias can come from training data (if the data underrepresents certain groups), from model...
ChatGPT beginner
An AI chatbot created by OpenAI, launched in November 2022. It popularized large language models and made AI accessible to everyone. ChatGPT can answer questions, write text, gener...
Claude beginner
An AI assistant built by Anthropic, known for being helpful, harmless, and honest. Claude is designed with a strong focus on safety and can handle very long documents (up to 200,00...
EU AI Act beginner
The world's first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence, passed by the European Union in 2024. It classifies AI systems into four risk levels (prohibited, high-risk,...
Generative AI beginner
AI that creates new content — text, images, music, video, or code. Unlike traditional AI that analyzes or classifies, generative AI produces something new. ChatGPT generates text, ...
Hallucination beginner
When an AI generates information that sounds plausible but is factually incorrect. LLMs do not "know" facts — they predict likely word sequences. This can lead to confident-soundin...
High-Risk AI beginner
AI systems classified under the EU AI Act as potentially harmful to people's rights or safety. Examples: AI in recruiting, credit scoring, healthcare diagnosis, and law enforcement...
Large Language Model (LLM) beginner
An AI model trained on massive amounts of text data that can understand and generate human language. Examples include GPT-4, Claude, Mistral, and Gemini. LLMs power chatbots, writi...
Machine Learning beginner
A subset of AI where systems learn patterns from data instead of being explicitly programmed. Instead of writing rules like "if X then Y", you feed the system thousands of examples...
Mistral AI beginner
A French AI company founded in 2023 that builds open-weight language models. Mistral is the most prominent European AI lab and offers models that enterprises can run on their own i...
Open-Source AI beginner
AI models whose code and weights are publicly available for anyone to use, modify, and deploy. Examples include Meta's LLaMA, Mistral's models, and many models on Hugging Face. Ope...
Prompt beginner
The instruction or question you give to an AI system. The quality of the prompt determines the quality of the output. A good prompt is specific, provides context, and clearly descr...
Prompt Engineering beginner
The art and science of writing effective instructions for AI systems. Good prompt engineering can dramatically improve AI output quality without changing the underlying model. Tech...
ROI of AI beginner
Return on investment from AI projects. Measured by comparing the costs (tools, data, training, integration) against the benefits (time saved, errors reduced, revenue increased, new...
Responsible AI beginner
An approach to developing and deploying AI that prioritizes fairness, transparency, accountability, and safety. Responsible AI ensures that systems do not discriminate, that decisi...
Training Data beginner
The data used to teach an AI model. The quality, quantity, and diversity of training data directly determine how well the model performs. For language models, this means billions o...
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Understanding AI
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AI in Practice
Agentic AI, RAG, fine-tuning — the technologies that turn AI from a toy into a business tool. For decision-makers who want more than ChatGPT.
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Regulation & Governance
EU AI Act, bias testing, explainability — everything you need for compliant AI. Deadline August 2026.
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