There are a ton of new-to-most-people terms out there now since AI has taken off in popularity.
It can be really easy for us technical-folk to throw out big, confusing words and definitions that go WAY over peoples’ heads.
I am going to attempt to simplify some of these terms so more people can be part of the conversation.
I’ll do 5 terms at a time to keep these “quick” -
Large Language Model (LLM)
- Really smart robots that have read a lot of books, watched a lot of movies, and know a ton, so they are aware of just about anything that you can think of. They can use that knowledge to write and create if you ask them to.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
- A computer that is able to think and learn like a person.
Algorithm
- Step-by-step instructions (like a recipe for how to bake chocolate chip cookies),
Generative AI
- Like a creative robot that can make its own paintings, music, or videos that somehow resembles the billions of examples that it has seen.
Chatbot
- Like a robot butler (named Jeeves) that you can have a conversation with or ask it to do something for you.