AI 101
A deep learning model trained on huge amounts of text to produce coherent, natural-sounding language.
What is an Large Language Model (LLM)?
Arora et al. say LLMs “do not like uncertainty,” so they sometimes state false information with confidence. This is the term.
What is a hallucination?
Chatbots studied for anxiety and depression deliver exercises from this kind of therapy.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
A computer built on quantum mechanics, using qubits instead of ordinary bits.
What is a quantum computer?
The facility full of servers and networking gear that powers AI models
What is a data center?
ML is a type of AI that learns patterns from data instead of following specific instructions programmed by humans. It uses these patterns to make predictions or decisions.
What is Machine Learning?
A systematic error in a model, often because the training data wasn’t representative of the task or people it was mean to serve.
What is Bias?
AI scribes reclaimed about 15,791 hours of clinicians’ time on this task
What is documentation?
A qubit can be in a combination of 0 and 1 at once until it is measured. This is the principle
What is superposition?
A program that simulates conversation with a person by text or voice. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a well-known example.
What is a Chatbot?
In supervised learning, experts tag data with the correct answer, such as marking pneumonia on an X-ray. This is called?
What is labeling?
An AI system can lose accuracy after deployment when equipment or patient mix changes.
What is drift (model drift)?
In a German screening study of 463,094 mammograms, AI-aided radiologists found this much more cancer.
What is 17.6%?
This quantum phenomenon, in which particles’ states are linked, is core to how quantum computers work
What is entanglement?
This term describes telling an AI what you want in plain English and letting it write the software, sometimes without reading the code.
What is vibe coding?
A finite sequence of well-defined instructions, typically used to solve a problem.
What is an algorithm?
This name for algorithms whose reasoning can’t be inspected. The Arora paper says shouldn’t be allowed in medical decision-making
What is a “black box”?
ICU machine-learning suppressor cut these by 60% with no missed critical events, easing “alarm fatigue”
What are false alarms?
Quantum computers threaten the security of this field, which depends on large numbers being too hard to factor.
What is Cryptography?
This tiny electronic switch, billions of which sit on a modern chip, is what physically stores a computer’s 0s and 1s
What is a transistor?
A hypothetical AI that could learn and apply knowledge across a wide range of tasks at human-level proficiency.
What is artificial general intelligence(AGI or GI)?
Not a formal diagnosis, this term describes people developing or deepening delusional beliefs through intense chatbot use.
What is “AI psychosis”?
MD Anderson spent $62 million on this IBM system for oncology recommendations, then abandoned it
What is Watson?
A salesman must visit every city once and return home by the shortest route. This is the problem
What is the traveling salesman problem?
This field of AI lets machines interpret images and video, like reading a retinal photo or a mammogram .
What is computer vision?