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AI is advancing so fast, new slang words are being invented and technical terms are going mainstream faster than anyone can keep up with. To help, I’ve compiled a list of terms that can keep you in “the know.” This breakdown isn't meant to be a textbook or an exhaustive dictionary. It's a collection of the AI terms I hear most often, explained in plain English with real-world examples and the stories behind them. Let’s start with a few basics and then we’ll move to some concepts that are shaping the AI industry. Temperature Temperature is a parameter that controls how random or creative an AI model's responses are. Lower temperatures produce more predictable, deterministic answers, and higher temperatures encourage more diverse and imaginative outputs. The name comes from statistical physics and probability distributions, where increasing temperature flattens probability curves and makes less likely outcomes more probable. See blog post  Understanding AI, Part 4: Temperatur...