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A collection of terms and definitions related to AI, marketing, and technology.

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Custom AI vs. SaaS AI

SaaS AI is a ready-made vendor model—like ChatGPT Enterprise—fast to deploy but constrained by the vendor’s architecture and roadmap.

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Embeddings

Embeddings are numerical representations of text—vectors of hundreds or thousands of floating-point numbers—that capture semantic meaning in a form machines...

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Few-Shot Prompting

Few-shot prompting leverages AI’s pattern recognition by providing a handful of examples in the prompt, enabling the model to identify patterns and generate...

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Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning continues training a pretrained language model on a smaller, task-specific dataset so it internalizes particular behaviors, styles, or domain...

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Forward-Deployed Engineering

Forward-deployed engineering embeds engineers directly with clients to build custom solutions for real-world problems rather than shipping generic products...

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Foundation Model

A foundation model is a large AI model trained on broad data at massive scale, designed to be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks rather than built...

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Fuzzy Interface

A fuzzy interface is AI’s adaptive translation layer between rigid organizational systems and human intent, interpreting context and adapting to various...

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Generative AI

Generative AI refers to AI systems that learn statistical patterns from training data to create new content—such as text, images, code, audio, or...

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Generative Engine Optimization

Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring content so AI systems—such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Bing...

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Gravity Wells

Gravity wells describe economic dynamics where scarce resources flow disproportionately to entities with the greatest ability to pay and deploy, creating...

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Hallucination

Hallucination occurs when a language model generates text that sounds confident and plausible but is factually incorrect, such as invented citations or...

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Inference

Inference is the process of running a trained model on new input to generate a prediction or output—such as sending a prompt to GPT-4 and receiving a...

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