A
General AI term
Agent
A system that uses a model to choose steps, tools or actions toward a task.
General AI term
AI Model
A trained computational system that produces predictions or generated outputs from input data.
C
Gaiish term
Constraint
A boundary that makes an answer acceptable: scope, limit, requirement, tone or exclusion.
Gaiish term
Context
The situation, audience and source material a model needs but cannot infer.
General AI term
Context Window
The amount of input and output text a model can process in one interaction.
G
General AI term
Generative AI
AI systems that generate new text, images, audio, video, code or other content.
General AI term
Grounding
Connecting a model's response to supplied, retrieved or otherwise identified evidence.
H
General AI term
Hallucination
An unsupported or invented detail presented by a generative model as if it were reliable.
I
Gaiish term
Instruction
The action a model should take, expressed as a clear primary verb.
Gaiish term
Intent
The outcome, decision or change that makes a request useful.
General AI term
Iteration
A deliberate cycle of running, evaluating and refining a prompt or output.
L
General AI term
Large Language Model
A language model trained on large text datasets to predict and generate sequences of tokens.
O
Gaiish term
Output Specification
A description of the result's artefact, fields, sections, format and useful limits.
P
General AI term
Prompt
The input a person or system sends to a generative AI model.
Gaiish term
Prompt Framework
A repeatable shape for organising the components of a prompt.
R
General AI term
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A pattern that retrieves relevant source material and supplies it to a generative model before generation.
T
General AI term
Token
A unit of text or other input that a language model processes.
V
Gaiish term
Validation
A check that the result satisfies the request, evidence boundary and declared constraints.
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