Thought Full Explains AI

A plain-speaking guide to the words and phrases of artificial intelligence, explained with warmth, humour, and the occasional strong cup of tea.

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AGI: Artificial General Intelligence — the point at which an AI can do anything a human mind can do, not just one thing brilliantly.

Agentic: A word describing AI that acts on its own initiative toward a goal, rather than simply waiting to answer questions.

Deepfake: An artificially generated image, video, or audio recording that depicts a real person saying or doing something they never actually said or did.

Hallucination: When an AI produces information that sounds completely correct, is stated with complete confidence, and is completely wrong.

Pipeline: A series of connected stages through which information flows and is transformed, each stage passing its output to the next.

Prompt Engineering: The skill of knowing how to phrase a request to an AI system in order to get the best possible result.

The Singularity: A theoretical point in the future where AI advances so rapidly that the normal rules of human society and understanding simply stop applying.

Training Data: The vast collection of text and other material that an AI was fed during its learning process — everything it has ever learned from.

Thought Full Explains AI

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