AI Glossary

A comprehensive reference of artificial intelligence terms, concepts, and technologies

AI Alignment
advanced
AI Ethics & Safety

The challenge of ensuring AI systems act in accordance with human values and intentions.

values
safety
goals
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AI Bias
intermediate
AI Ethics & Safety

Systematic errors in AI systems that create unfair outcomes for certain groups of people.

fairness
discrimination
equity
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AI Ethics
beginner
AI Ethics & Safety

The field concerned with ensuring AI systems are designed and used in ways that are beneficial, fair, transparent, and respectful of human rights.

fairness
transparency
accountability
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
beginner
AI Fundamentals

Computer systems capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.

intelligence
core concept
Computer Vision
intermediate
Computer Vision

AI field that enables computers to derive meaningful information from digital images and videos.

image processing
object detection
image recognition
Deep Learning
intermediate
Deep Learning

A subset of machine learning based on artificial neural networks with multiple layers.

neural networks
layers
representation learning
Diffusion Model
advanced
Deep Learning

Generative models that learn to create data by gradually denoising random noise.

generative models
denoising
sampling
Embedding
intermediate
Machine Learning

Dense vector representations of data that capture semantic meaning in a form usable by machine learning models.

vector representation
dimensionality reduction
semantic meaning
Explainable AI (XAI)
intermediate
AI Ethics & Safety

AI systems designed to make their functioning transparent and their decisions interpretable by humans.

transparency
interpretability
black box
+1
Fine-tuning
intermediate
Machine Learning

The process of further training a pre-trained model on a specific dataset to adapt it for particular tasks.

transfer learning
model adaptation
specialization
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)
advanced
Deep Learning

A framework where two neural networks (generator and discriminator) compete to create realistic synthetic data.

adversarial training
generator
discriminator
Generative AI
beginner
AI Fundamentals

AI systems that can create new content such as text, images, audio, or video.

content creation
synthesis
creative AI
Large Language Model (LLM)
intermediate
Natural Language Processing

Neural network models with billions of parameters trained on vast text corpora to understand and generate human language.

language generation
text prediction
foundation models
Machine Learning (ML)
beginner
Machine Learning

A subset of AI that enables systems to learn and improve from experience without explicit programming.

algorithms
data
training
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
intermediate
Natural Language Processing

AI techniques that enable computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language.

language
text
linguistics
Neural Network
intermediate
Deep Learning

Computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks in animal brains.

neurons
weights
activation functions
Prompt Engineering
beginner
Natural Language Processing

The practice of designing and optimizing inputs to AI systems to achieve desired outputs.

prompts
instructions
context
Reinforcement Learning (RL)
intermediate
Reinforcement Learning

Training agents to make sequences of decisions by rewarding desired behaviors.

agents
rewards
environment
+1
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
advanced
Natural Language Processing

An approach that enhances language models by retrieving relevant information from external sources before generating responses.

information retrieval
knowledge base
context augmentation
Supervised Learning
beginner
Machine Learning

Training a model on labeled data to make predictions or decisions.

labeled data
classification
regression
Transformer
advanced
Deep Learning

Neural network architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data.

attention mechanism
sequence modeling
parallelization
Unsupervised Learning
beginner
Machine Learning

Training a model on unlabeled data to find patterns or structure.

unlabeled data
clustering
dimensionality reduction
Vector Database
intermediate
AI Tools & Frameworks

Specialized databases designed to store, index, and query vector embeddings efficiently.

embeddings
similarity search
nearest neighbor

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