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THE PLAIN-ENGLISH AI GLOSSARY
Fifty AI terms you will actually meet, defined without the hype.
LLM, token, hallucination, RAG, agent, MCP, context window and the rest, each defined in a sentence or two of plain English. Dated, and reviewed every six months so it stays current. Take it, share it, no form.
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Fifty terms, defined without the sales pitch
Every definition is written for someone who has to make a decision involving the term, not someone studying the field. That is also how AI work gets scoped. Where a word is used loosely by vendors, the entry says so. Where two vendors mean different things by the same word, which happens often with agent and model, the entry says that too.
Useful in the room, as well as at your desk
The common use is during a demo or a proposal review, when a supplier uses a term confidently and the honest response is that you are not certain what they mean by it. Being able to check quickly changes the balance of that conversation.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Who is this AI glossary for?
Business and marketing people who have to evaluate AI proposals, not engineers. If you can already write the definition of a transformer, this is not aimed at you.
Is it kept up to date?
The terms that matter commercially move more slowly than the headlines suggest. The glossary is revised when a definition genuinely shifts in the market rather than every time a new product launches.
Does it cover Australian AI regulation?
Not in depth. It defines the terms you will meet in governance conversations, including the ones used in policy discussion, but it is a vocabulary reference rather than a compliance guide.