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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.
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.
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.
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When an AI confidently states something that is factually wrong or completely made up. A fundamental property of how language models work.
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An AI that can take actions, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks on its own — not just answer questions.
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