Term

Definition

AI

Artificial Intelligence. A general term for software programs which produce output or act in a way that resembles human intelligence or behaviour.

Bias

The responses of an AI system can reflect or sometimes exacerbate existing or past human social biases, example inequality among certain groups.

Errors

Factually incorrect information produced by an AI system.

Generative AI

A specific field of artificial intelligence that creates content (text, images, etc) by inferring and learning from patterns in data. Often abbreviated as Gen AI.

Guardrails

Restrictions programmed into AI systems / computer code that prevents or minimises potentially harmful, biased or unethical system behaviour.

Hallucinations

A type of error in an AI system which is completely made up information presented as fact.

LLM

Large language model: a computational technique used in AI systems that generates human-like text.