Glossary

Machine Learning (ML)

The broader technology where a computer improves at a task by learning patterns from data, rather than being programmed with fixed rules.

Machine learning is the general technology behind modern AI, including large language models: a system improves at a task by learning patterns from data instead of following instructions someone wrote by hand. It’s the foundation everything else in this glossary, from LLMs to embeddings, is built on.

See every term in the glossary