AI Glossary
Definitions of every AI term, concept, and acronym.
Alignment
Making a model's behavior match human intent and values.
glossary_termFine-tuning
Further training a pretrained model on a smaller, specific dataset.
glossary_termContext window
How much text a model can consider at once.
glossary_termInference
Running a trained model to get predictions.
glossary_termTransformer
The neural network architecture behind most modern language models.
glossary_termQuantization
Shrinking a model by storing its weights at lower precision.
glossary_termDiffusion
Generating data by gradually removing noise, step by step.
glossary_termEmbedding
A list of numbers that represents meaning, so similar things sit close together.
glossary_termHallucination
When a model states something fluent but false.
glossary_termToken
A chunk of text (often a word-piece) that a model reads and predicts.
glossary_termAttention
A mechanism that lets a model weigh which parts of the input matter most for each output.
glossary_termRLHF
Reinforcement learning from human feedback — tuning a model toward preferred answers.