Big ideas. Useful next steps.

A chatbot usually responds inside a conversation.

Tokens are pieces of text that a language model processes.

An embedding represents an item as numbers that capture useful relationships for a model.

A convincing demo rarely shows your difficult cases, editing burden or recurring costs.

Local AI runs a model on your own device or controlled machine.

Multimodal AI handles more than one kind of input or output, such as text with images or audio.

A downloadable model is not automatically unrestricted or fully open source.

Retrieval-augmented generation supplies relevant information at answer time.

Generative AI produces new text, images, audio or other outputs from patterns learned during training.

An AI answer can sound certain while naming a nonexistent study, inventing a product feature or confusing two dates.