Foundational Models
This model powers perhaps the world's most famous chat bot, first introduced to the masses in 2022
What is Chat GPT / GPT
This polite golden protocol droid from Star Wars is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
Who is C-3PO
This is what the letters in LLM stand for.
What is large language model
This executive was ousted and then swiftly reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO after a 2023 board shakeup.
Who is Sam Altman?
When an AI reflects unfair or prejudiced data in its outputs, it’s showing this problem.
What is bias?
This Anthropic model line is known for a strong focus on safety and reliability.
What is Claude?
This calm but menacing computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey said, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
HAL 9000
The process of feeding data and examples to an AI model so it can learn patterns.
What is training?
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the company behind the Claude model family.
Who is Dario Amodei?
The idea that AI systems should be able to clearly explain how they make decisions.
What is explainability / Interpretability?
Google rebranded Bard under this name, which references “twins.”
What is Gemini?
This AI assistant from the Iron Man films helped Tony Stark before becoming the android Vision.
Who is J.A.R.V.I.S.?
A computing system inspired by the human brain, made up of interconnected layers of nodes.
What is a neural network?
The entrepreneur behind xAI and its Grok chatbot; he also serves as xAI’s CEO.
Who is Elon Musk?
This term describes when people can’t see inside an AI system to understand how it works.
What is the black box problem?
Meta’s widely used open-weight large language model family (often mislabeled “open source”).
What is Llama (LLaMA)?
This humanoid AI from Ex Machina passes the Turing Test in more ways than one.
Who is Ava?
This field of AI focuses on creating systems that can produce new text, images, or audio, rather than just analyzing data.
What is generative AI?
The CEO of Google DeepMind, known for leading breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold.
Who is Demis Hassabis?
Ensuring that an AI’s goals and behavior stay consistent with human values and intent is called this.
What is alignment?
This French startup made waves in 2023 by releasing “Mixtral 8x7B,” a mixture-of-experts model that rivaled GPT-4 in efficiency and was fully open-weight.
What is Mistral?
This AI chatbot from the movie Her captured hearts worldwide as she formed an emotional relationship with Joaquin Phoenix’s character.
Who is Samantha?
This process in machine learning involves dividing data into training and testing sets to evaluate how well a model performs on unseen examples.
What is cross-validation?
This Canadian researcher, often called one of the “Godfathers of AI,” pioneered deep learning through his work on neural networks and backpropagation.
Who is Geoffrey Hinton?
This term describes the risk of AI systems being trained on data scraped from the internet without permission, raising questions about ownership and consent.
What is data privacy?