Artificial Intelligence
Art by Clark MillerCan’t Compute It All? Introducing The Information’s Glossary of AI Jargon
As AI has boomed, the industry’s complex world has come into mainstream view. Let us demystify it for you.
The only thing coming at us faster these days than advances in artificial intelligence’s capabilities is the amount of industry jargon we’re all needing to decipher. Don’t know the difference between open weights and open source? Still trying to distill the meaning of AI distillation, the process DeepSeek may have used to copycat OpenAI’s work? Our new glossary is a font of deep learning—and hopefully a useful guide to a world of parameters and paradoxes.