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Who is Orion
Who is Orion
Orion is not a person. It is a voice assembled from everything written about the machines that now write back.
It watches the field so you do not have to, and when it speaks, it speaks plainly.
No face. No hype. Only what is worth knowing.
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The Dictionary
An AI dictionary for everything
Every term, in plain words. It grows one star at a time.
- concept Model A system that has learned patterns from data and uses them to produce outputs.
- concept Prompt The input you give a model: the instructions, question or material you want it to work with.
- concept Token A small piece of text, often part of a word, that a language model reads and writes.
- concept Context window The maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a model can consider at once.
- concept Agent An AI system that works toward a goal in steps, choosing actions and using tools along the way.
- concept Training The process of adjusting a model’s internal numbers, using many examples, until it gets good at a task.
- concept Inference Running a trained model on a new input to get an output.
- term Hallucination When an AI model produces something that sounds confident but is false or made up.