Talking to Machines
A question, instruction, or statement given by a user to guide AI's response.
A prompt
This interconnected network makes decisions using weights and hidden layers.
A neural network
This is when AI generates conflicting responses to similar input, so both can't be correct.
A contradiction
The five key elements of a strong prompt: Task, Context, Format, Reference, and this.
Tone
This is the legal right granted to a creator to use, distribute, and modify their original work.
Copyright
Generative AI picks its next word based on this measure of how likely an outcome is.
Probability
The information — text, images, or code — used to teach an AI model is called this.
Training Data
Asking "Why is it good to…" versus "Why is it bad to…" is this prompt-refinement strategy.
Opposite framing
This element means telling the AI exactly, and actionably, what you want it to do.
Task
This is the act of giving credit to the original creator of a work.
Attribution
This technology mimics human intelligence, performing tasks such as understanding language, recognizing patterns, and making decisions.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
This term describes what happens when training data contains errors or unbalanced examples — the AI's behavior and biases end up shaped by them.
Biased training data / the data shapes AI behavior
Additional information surrounding a prompt that helps AI respond more accurately.
Context
Specifying "write it as a haiku" refines which element of a prompt?
Format
This is the practice of openly disclosing how something works — especially data use or AI decision-making.
Transparency
This term means focusing only on the essential details of a problem and ignoring everything else.
Abstraction
This general-purpose form of AI is trained on a very, very large body of knowledge.
A large language model (LLM)
In the telehealth activity, students fixed contradictory AI advice using these two strategies.
Fact-checking with reliable sources and refining the prompt
Refining a prompt is similar to this software development process — test, observe, update, repeat.
Debugging
In 2023, an AI song went viral using the voices of these two artists — without their permission.
(Drake and The Weeknd)
When students added this to their gift-idea prompt — describing who the gift was for — AI's suggestions became far more useful. Name the prompting lesson here.
Be specific / add details to your prompt
When AI finishes a sentence, it doesn't know the right answer — it selects the next word based on patterns in its training data and this concept, which measures how likely each word is to come next.
Probability
Explain why AI models contradict themselves while a medical professional usually wouldn't.
AI learns from broad, generalized datasets that may be conflicting or outdated; professionals have deep, current expertise.
"Write in a professional tone, as if you are a college admissions counselor" refines two elements at once. Name both.
Tone and context
Distinguish between copyright and attribution: which one gives the creator control, and which one just gives credit?
Copyright = control; attribution = credit/recognition