The Codex
Dictionary
An AI dictionary for everything. Every term in plain words, charted as stars.
All terms 8
- AgentAn AI system that works toward a goal in steps, choosing actions and using tools along the way.
- Context windowThe maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a model can consider at once.
- HallucinationWhen an AI model produces something that sounds confident but is false or made up.
- InferenceRunning a trained model on a new input to get an output.
- ModelA system that has learned patterns from data and uses them to produce outputs.
- PromptThe input you give a model: the instructions, question or material you want it to work with.
- TokenA small piece of text, often part of a word, that a language model reads and writes.
- TrainingThe process of adjusting a model’s internal numbers, using many examples, until it gets good at a task.
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