AKA — AI ACRONYMS
These two words are what the letters "AI" stand for.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
This friendly AI voice assistant lives inside an "Echo" speakers.
What is Alexa?
This Seattle-based company created a popular AI and also sells a whole lot of things in brown boxes.
What is Amazon?
Banks use AI to spot THIS illegal activity, like when someone uses your credit card in another country.
What is fraud?
This AI concept is inspired by the human brain and has "neurons" connected across layers.
What is a neural network?
"ML" in AI is short for this two-word learning method.
What is Machine Learning?
Apple's AI voice assistant, first launched on the iPhone in 2011.
What is Siri?
This company made Gemini AI and also runs the world's biggest search engine.
What is Google? (accept Alphabet)
This kind of app uses computer vision to identify plants, bugs, or dog breeds from a photo.
What is a plant / species identification app? (PictureThis, Seek, Google Lens)
This branch of AI lets computers learn from data instead of being programmed step-by-step.
What is Machine Learning?
The acronym "NLP", which helps computers understand human speech, stands for these three words.
What is Natural Language Processing?
OpenAI's famous AI chatbot that can write essays, answer questions, and write code.
What is ChatGPT?
Nicknamed "Big Blue," this company built Watson and WatsonX.
What is IBM?
Radiologists use AI to help spot diseases in these kinds of pictures, like X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs.
What are medical images / medical scans?
This subset of Machine Learning uses huge, many-layered neural networks for tasks like face recognition.
What is Deep Learning?
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are all examples of these, abbreviated "LLM."
What is a Large Language Model?
This AI and its enterprise successor famously won on the game we're playing right now, back in 2011.
What is Watson? (accept WatsonX)
This San Francisco company, founded in 2015, created ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4.
What is OpenAI?
Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise all use AI to build THESE vehicles that drive themselves.
What are self-driving cars? (accept autonomous vehicles)
In AI, this is the instruction, question, or text you type into a chatbot to get it to do something.
What is a prompt?
The AI field focused on teaching computers to "see" images and video, often shortened to "CV."
What is Computer Vision?
This French AI company makes powerful open-source language models and is named after a strong Mediterranean wind.
What is Mistral?
This company makes the open-source "Llama" family of AI models.
What is Meta?
Netflix, Spotify, and TikTok all use AI for THIS task, suggesting what you should watch, listen to, or scroll to next.
What are recommendations? (accept recommendation systems/algorithms)
This type of AI creates new content, images, text, music, or video, instead of just analyzing existing data.
What is Generative AI? (accept GenAI)