📖 AI Glossary
Look up AI terms, companies, and services used across AI Note Lab.

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Chain of thought
CoT
Chain of thought is a technique that allows AI to answer by writing down the solution process step by step rather than just making a conclusion. Significantly improves accuracy for complex problems.
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Chasm
technology adoption chasm, adoption gap
The gap between early interest in a technology and broader practical adoption.
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Chatbot
Chatbot is the general name for a program that responds in a conversational format. Since the emergence of generative AI, it has become a term used to refer to ChatGPT-type conversational AI.
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Cloud
cloud computing
Cloud is a method of renting a server over the Internet rather than purchasing it directly. Most AI learning and services run in the cloud.
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Compact language model
Small language model, sLM, sLLM, lightweight model
Compact language model is a language model whose size has been significantly reduced compared to large models. It is cheap and fast, so it is in the spotlight for specific tasks.
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Computer vision
vision AI
Computer vision is an AI field that understands images and videos. It corresponds to the eyes of face recognition, defect detection, and autonomous driving.
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Context Window
context window
A context window is the amount of content an AI model can remember and refer to within a single conversation.
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Crawling
scraping
This program automatically collects data from the web. This is a key issue in copyright disputes surrounding AI learning data collection.
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CSS
stylesheet
CSS is the style language used to control layout, spacing, colors, and visual presentation on web pages.
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CUDA
A development platform for NVIDIA GPUs. It is considered a key weapon in NVIDIA's dominance in the AI developer ecosystem.
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Cutoff
learning point, knowledge cutoff, knowledge deadline
A cutoff is the point where an AI model’s training data ends, so it may not know later events, prices, or news.
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Data Center
AI data center
Data Center is a facility with tens of thousands of servers and is the physical basis for AI learning and services. Power and cooling issues have become hot topics in the AI era.
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Data labeling
labeling, annotation
Data labeling is the task of attaching a correct answer mark to the learning data. It's also a large, manual industry behind AI.
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Database
DB, database
A database stores and retrieves structured data. Schema changes can affect many parts of a service.
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Dataset
training data
Dataset is a bundle of data used for AI learning. Quality and scale determine AI performance and are at the center of copyright debates.
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Deep Learning
Deep learning is a machine learning technique that uses layered artificial neural networks inspired by the human brain.
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Deepfake
Deepfake is fake content that synthesizes the faces and voices of real people using AI. It has become a tool for fraud and disinformation and is subject to regulation.
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DNS
Domain Name System, nameserver
DNS is the internet system that maps domain names to server addresses.
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Edge AI
This method runs AI directly on field devices (cameras, sensors, factory equipment) rather than on a server.
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Embedding
Embedding is a technology that converts the meaning of text into a numeric vector. Sentences with similar meanings have close numbers, which becomes the basis for AI search.
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