AI glossary

Definitions written for someone who has to make a decision, not pass an exam. Each entry says what the term means, when it matters and what it does not solve.

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  • Chain of thought CoT

    Prompting a model to write out its intermediate steps before the final answer.

  • Context window

    The maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a model can take into account at once - your prompt and its answer together.