{"id":242602,"date":"2026-05-09T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/so-youve-heard-these-ai-terms-and-nodded-along-lets-fix-that\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:25:08","slug":"so-youve-heard-these-ai-terms-and-nodded-along-lets-fix-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/so-youve-heard-these-ai-terms-and-nodded-along-lets-fix-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/05\/09\/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-09 17:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it\u2019s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you\u2019ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that. We update it regularly as the field evolves, so consider it a living document, much like the AI systems it describes.<\/p>\n

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a nebulous term. But it generally refers to AI that\u2019s more capable than the average human at many, if not most, tasks. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u00a0once described AGI as the \u201cequivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.\u201d Meanwhile,\u00a0OpenAI\u2019s charter\u00a0defines AGI as \u201chighly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.\u201d Google DeepMind\u2019s understanding differs slightly from these two definitions; the lab views AGI as \u201cAI that\u2019s at least as capable as humans at most cognitive tasks.\u201d Confused? Not to worry \u2014\u00a0so are experts at the forefront of AI research.<\/p>\n

An AI agent refers to a tool that uses AI technologies to perform a series of tasks on your behalf \u2014 beyond what a more basic AI chatbot could do \u2014 such as filing expenses, booking tickets or a table at a restaurant, or even writing and maintaining code. However, as we\u2019ve explained before, there are lots of moving pieces in this emergent space, so \u201cAI agent\u201d might mean different things to different people. Infrastructure is also still being built out to deliver on its envisaged capabilities. But the basic concept implies an autonomous system that may draw on multiple AI systems to carry out multistep tasks.<\/p>\n

Think of API endpoints as \u201cbuttons\u201d on the back of a piece of software that other programs can press to make it do things. Developers use these interfaces to build integrations \u2014 for example, allowing one application to…<\/p>\n

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