GenAI Basic Concepts
"AI" was coined at a conference at this college in 1956.
What is Dartmouth College?
This is a professional who designs, tests, and refines the text instructions (i.e., prompts) given to GenAI models to get the most accurate and useful results.
What is a prompt engineer?
A large, humongous body of text, e.g. all of Wikipedia or a complete encyclopedia
What is a corpus?
"Knowledge is in the _____." (starts with a "w")
What are weights?
The most common use case for GenAI according to the Harvard Business Review is this (starts with a "t" or "c")
What is therapy and/or companionship?
This GenAI product by Anthropic starts with the letter "c" .
What is Claude?
What the model should do addresses this aspect of prompting (starts with a "t")
What is the task?
A list of all individual words used in a corpus, without duplicates.
What is a dictionary?
In AI, the equivalent of a neuron is called this.
What is a perceptron?
Tyler Austin Harper stated that there is already a deep moral failure for AI. The word is this.
What is a sin?
The second AI "surge" happened during this decade (Professor Lewis was part of this).
What are the 1980s?
This aspect of prompting considers who you want AI to be (starts with a "p")
What is persona?
A mathematical table that counts how frequently pairs of items—such as words—appear together (two words).
What is a co-occurrence matrix?
The 1960s AI bubble deflated because Marvin Minsky of MIT discovered that the neuron could not learn this function.
What is "xor"?
This word describes the occasional discrepancy that occurs between what GenAI does and human values/morals. Starts with an "m"
What is misalignment?
This is the specific instruction, question, or input data typed or uploaded into an AI product.
What are prompts?
This aspect of prompting addresses what the output should look like (table, bullet points, graphic, etc.)
What is format?
A way to prevent hallucinations is to use this _____ dial ranging from 0 to 1.
What is temperature?
This _____ "or" means either one or possibly both (starts with an "i")
What is inclusive? (i.e., inclusive or)
This is a positive thing that GenAI has done for medicine
What is designing new drugs and antibiotics, detecting tumors, helping scientists design proteins, accelerating drug discoveries, reducing doctors' paperwork, or creating better simulations for medical training?
GenAI app = Product + Integration + this
"this" above starts with a "p"
What is prompting?
Use this to distinguish instructions from the content you want GenAI to work on (starts with a "d")
What are delimiters?
GenAI is based on a famous quote, "You shall know a word by the ____ it keeps" by linguist, J.R. Firth (1957).
What is "company?"
A parameter is the same thing as a _____. (Starts with a "w")
This is a negative consequence that data centers can have on the environment