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From LLMs to hallucinations, here's a simple guide to common AI terms
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Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world.
Key facts
- Large language models, or LLMs, are the AI models used by popular AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s AI Llama, Microsoft Copilot, or Mistral’s Le Chat
- A subset of self-improving machine learning in which AI algorithms are designed with a multi-layered, artificial neural network (ANN) structure
- A GAN, or Generative Adversarial Network, is a type of machine learning framework that underpins some important developments in generative AI when it comes to producing realistic data — including
- Hallucination is the AI industry’s preferred term for AI models making stuff up – generating information that is incorrect
Summary
The team will regularly update this glossary to add new entries as researchers continually uncover novel methods to push the frontier of artificial intelligence while identifying emerging safety risks. Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a nebulous term. An AI agent refers to a tool that uses AI technologies to perform a series of tasks on your behalf — beyond what a more basic AI chatbot could do — such as filing expenses, booking tickets or a table at a restaurant, or even writing and maintaining code. Given a simple question, a human brain can answer without even thinking too much about it — things like “which animal is taller, a giraffe or a cat?” But in many cases, you often need a pen and paper to come up with the right answer because there are intermediary steps.