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Prompt
noun
The instruction or question you give to an AI model to get a response. Your prompt is literally everything the AI has to work with.
Token
noun
The small chunks of text an AI reads and processes — roughly a word or part of a word. Every model has a limit on how many tokens it can handle at once.
LLM
noun · abbr.
Large Language Model — an AI trained on massive amounts of text to understand and generate human language. The engine behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Hallucination
noun
When an AI confidently states something that is factually wrong or completely made up. A fundamental property of how language models work.
AI Agent
noun
An AI that can take actions, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks on its own — not just answer questions.
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