Glossary of the New World
Translating artificial intelligence into the language of the land
Large Language Model (LLM)
— The Village Square
A collective memory that doesn't think, but remembers the frequency of words like an elder completing an ancient proverb.
Prompt
— The Fireside Beginning
The spark that initiates the dialogue. The more precise the beginning, the richer in meaning and truth the story you receive will be.
RAG
— The Priest's Library
The act of consulting real documents before answering, to prevent the memory of the square from inventing events that never happened.
Latent Space
— The Seed Warehouse
The invisible universe where concepts are close by nature and affinity, not by alphabetical order.
Training
— The Harvest Season
The time of sowing and caring for thought, producing a model capable of nourishing our questions.
Weights
— The Well-Worn Paths
The preferred paths of artificial thought, traced by the experience of billions of previous conversations.
Token
— The Grains of Wheat
The elementary particles of communication. The minimum unit of meaning that the machine grinds to produce white flour.
Hallucination
— The Midday Heat Mirage
When too much light of statistics makes us see things that do not exist, but which take the reassuring shape of truth.
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