Everyday AI
This digital assistant lives in Apple devices and uses AI to answer questions, set timers, and send texts.
What is Siri
Facial recognition maps your face by creating a digital web of connected lines called this.
What is a mesh
The text you type into an AI chatbot to ask it a question or give it a command is called this.
What is a prompt
This company, originally famous for its search engine, created the Gemini AI.
What is Google
AI models don't live in the cloud; they live in massive warehouses full of servers known as these.
What are data centers
Companies like Tesla and Waymo use AI to power these types of vehicles that don't need a human behind the wheel.
What are self-driving cars
To tell you apart from someone else, the AI measures the exact distance between specific features on your face, known as these.
What are points
Telling an AI to "Act as a middle school science teacher" is assigning it one of these, which helps it answer in the right tone.
What is a role
This company is the creator of the Windows operating system and heavily invested billions of dollars into OpenAI.
What is Microsoft
Because computers get so hot doing AI math, many massive server farms use millions of gallons of this liquid to keep them cool.
What is water
Streaming apps use this type of AI system to analyze your past choices and suggest what movie or song you should play next.
What is a recommendation algorithm
Your phone uses facial recognition primarily for this daily security purpose when you pick it up.
What is unlocking the device
If you tell an AI to "write exactly 3 paragraphs without using the letter E," you are giving it this kind of strict rule.
What is a constraint
This AI company created ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E.
What is OpenAI
Running a large language model requires so much of this utility that tech companies are looking into nuclear power to provide enough of it.
What is electricity
This is the term for the AI technology that listens to your voice and turns it into text on a screen.
What is speech recognition
If you wear these accessories on your face, older facial recognition systems might struggle to map the points around your eyes.
What are glasses
Giving the AI one or two of these in your prompt helps it understand exactly what format you want the final answer to look like.
What are examples
This company created the AI chatbot Claude and focuses heavily on AI safety and research.
What is Anthropic
While ChatGPT is free for you to use, training a massive AI model from scratch costs hundreds of millions of these.
What are dollars
To navigate safely, a self-driving car uses AI combined with this spinning laser on its roof to "see" the world in 3D.
What is LiDAR
A 3D facial mesh measures the depth of your nose and jaw specifically to prevent someone from tricking the AI using one of these flat objects.
What is a photograph
This two-word term describes the high-paying tech skill of carefully crafting the perfect input to get the best possible output from an AI.
What is prompt engineering
This hardware company makes the wildly expensive, highly sought-after GPUs (graphics chips) that physically power most modern AI data centers.
What is Nvidia
When an AI model is asked a question by a user and generates an answer, the computing power used in that specific moment is called this—not training, but this "I" word.
What is inference