AI glossary / Industry talk

Pilot

Industry talk, also called Proof of concept

A small trial of an AI tool inside an organisation before deciding whether to roll it out to everyone.

More words in Industry talk

• RoboticsBuilding machines that can sense and move in the physical world. AI is increasingly what controls them.
• Scaling lawsThe observation that AI tends to improve in a predictable way as you give it more data, more computing power and a bigger model.
• Sovereign AIA country building its own AI models and data centres so it doesn't depend on foreign tech companies.
• TPUTensor processing unit. Google's own AI chip, an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs.
• Vendor lock-inBecoming so dependent on one company's AI that switching to another would be painful and expensive.