AI glossary / Using AI

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Using AI, also called Answer engine

Search that gives you a written answer with sources, instead of a list of links.

More words in Using AI

• Background agentAn agent that keeps working on a job after you've closed the chat, and reports back when it's done.
• Chat historyThe saved record of your past conversations with an assistant. You can usually delete it or turn it off.
• Coding agentAn AI that can read a software project, make changes, run tests and fix errors, working through a task step by step.
• Computer useAn AI operating a computer the way you do: looking at the screen, moving the mouse, clicking and typing.
• Context engineeringCarefully choosing what information, files and instructions to give an AI so it has what it needs and nothing that distracts it.