Artificial intelligence
From the basics of AI and how it learns to generative models, agents, everyday use and safety. Read one concept, then follow the links to the technologies around it.
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- Content CredentialsProvenance information attached to a file that records where the content came from and how it was made or changed.
- Reverse engineeringStudying a finished product to learn how it is built and how it works, then rebuilding something similar.
- Design tokenA shared agreement that gives names to design values such as colors, spacing and fonts and manages them in one place.
- Design systemA reference for screen design that collects design principles, reusable parts and rules for using them.
- Formal verificationA way of checking, using mathematical logic, that a program does what it promises to do.
- Harness engineeringDesigning the harness, the working framework around an AI model, to improve the quality and stability of its results.
- InterconnectThe data pathways that link chip to chip and chip piece to chip piece, along with the technology behind those links.
- UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express)An open standard for connecting chips to each other so that several chip pieces can be joined in one package.
- PaddingBlank filler data added to bring an input up to a set size.
- ChipletA design approach that splits a large chip into small dies and joins them as one inside a package.
- CompilationThe process of converting human-written code or a model into a form a machine can run, ahead of time.
- CorrigibilityThe trait of an AI accepting human requests for correction, obeying stop commands and not deceiving people.
- Tabular foundation modelAn AI model pretrained broadly on table-shaped data, so it can be used right away to make predictions on a new dataset.
- In-context learningThe ability to do a new task by looking only at examples placed in the input, without retraining the model.
- KV cachingA technique in which a transformer model stores values it has already computed and reuses them.
- Mixture of experts (MoE)A model design in which each input is sent to only a few expert modules, so only part of the model does the computing.
- CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)A shared ID number for a software security flaw, so different organizations and tools can call the same flaw by the same name.
- RustA systems programming language that aims for both memory safety and high performance, and checks code for danger strictly before it runs.
- Real-time speech translationAI interpreting that turns speech into another language, as speech or text, as soon as it is heard.
- Token poolingA technique that merges similar token vectors to reduce how many are stored.
- Multi-vector retrievalA search method that splits a document into several vectors so it can be compared with a query in fine detail.
- MiddlewareSoftware that sits between the operating system and applications, connecting them and handling common functions.
- OntologyA knowledge structure that organizes the relationships and meanings between pieces of data so a computer can understand them.
- AI bubbleA state in which AI investment has swollen too far and expectations have run ahead of real value.
- Voice agentAn AI program that listens, answers by voice and handles set tasks.
- Event-driven architectureA way of designing software in which parts are connected so the system reacts each time something happens.
- Noise cancellationTechnology that picks up surrounding noise with a microphone and cancels it with an opposite waveform, or keeps only the voice.
- Microphone arrayA setup that places several microphones at set spacing to improve both the direction finding and the sound quality.
- UpscalerA tool that enlarges a low-resolution image to a higher resolution and fills in the missing pixels.
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