Glossary
A plain-English glossary of the methods and ideas behind modern AI. Search, sort, or jump to a letter.
7 terms
| Definition | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chain-of-Thought Prompting | Prompting a model to reason step by step before answering. | May 21, 2026 |
| CLIP | A model that learns shared text and image embeddings from paired data. | May 21, 2026 |
| Constitutional AI | Aligning models using a written set of principles instead of human labels. | May 21, 2026 |
| Context Engineering | Systematically constructing and evolving an agent’s context — instructions, memory, retrieved info, tool results — as the primary lever for performance. | May 21, 2026 |
| Context Window | The maximum number of tokens a model can attend to at once, spanning both the prompt and its generated output. | May 22, 2026 |
| Contrastive Learning | Learning by pulling related items together and pushing others apart. | May 21, 2026 |
| Convolutional Neural Network | A network that uses sliding filters, ideal for images. | May 21, 2026 |