Algorithm - A finite set of unambiguous instructions that, given some set of initial conditions, can be performed in a prescribed sequence to achieve a certain goal and that has a recognizable set of end conditions
Artificial General Intelligence - A form of AI that has the same cognitive abilities as a human being across a range of domains. Otherwise known as 'Strong AI'.
Artificial Narrow Intelligence - A form of AI that performs a single task or function, such as playing chess, facial recognition, or voice assistants. Otherwise known as 'Weak AI'.
Conversational AI - A type of artificial intelligence that enables computers to understand, process and generate human language and refers to technologies like chatbots or virtual agents, which users can talk to.
Deep-Fakes - Deep-fakes are synthetic media that have been digitally manipulated to replace one person's likeness convincingly with that of another.
GAIT (Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool) - A software that can generate new content, such as text, images, audio or video, based on patterns and connections learned from large datasets. Otherwise known as 'Generative AI' and 'GenAI'.
Generative Pre-trained Transformer - AI pre-trained on large chunks of the internet giving ability to generate text in response to user prompts. They may not have access to the internet as so cannot access information beyond its ‘training’ data cut-off date.
“Giraffing” - The phenomenon of AI identifying objects present in an image that are not there. E.g. usually a picture of a paddock would have an animal inside. If there is an image of an empty paddock or field, AI may describe the image as containing a Giraffe or other animal, because that is ‘typical’ of the photos it was trained on.
Hallucinations – An often-used word to describe plausible untruths AI generate.
LLM (Large Language Model) - Artificial neural networks (mainly transformers), trained using self-supervised learning and semi-supervised learning able to achieve general-purpose language understanding and generation.
NLP (Natural Language Processing) - A branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on helping computers to understand the way that humans write and speak.
Prompt - A set of instructions or commands given to an AI system to carry out a particular task or function.
Prompt Engineering - A technique and skill used in artificial intelligence (AI) to optimise and fine-tune language models for particular tasks and desired outputs.
Supervised Learning - A type of machine learning algorithm that uses a known dataset, called the training dataset, to make predictions.
System Interface - A physical connecting piece between two or more separate components of a computer system e.g. mobile phone - keyboard buttons, or using virtual assistant with voice commands such as 'Hey Siri'.