AI glossary / Using AI
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Standing preferences you give an AI once, such as your job or preferred tone, so you don't repeat yourself every chat.
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- Deep researchA mode where an assistant spends several minutes searching and reading many sources, then writes you a report with references.
- Few-shot promptingGiving the AI a few examples of what you want before asking for your own.
- GroundingTying an AI's answer to real sources, such as documents or web results, so it isn't working from memory alone.
- HallucinationWhen an AI confidently states something that is wrong or made up. It isn't lying. It's predicting words that sound right.
- Knowledge cutoffThe date an AI's training information stops. It won't know about anything after that unless it can search the web.