AI Jargon: The A-List

The video AI Jargon: The A-List discusses some important AI terms starting with the letter: . Activation function - The non-linear function applied at each neuron’s output, such as ReLU, GELU, or SwiGLU . Adam / AdamW - The default optimizers currently used for training neural networks . Agent - A Large Language Model combined with a harness that allows it to operate in a loop using various tools . Agentic engineering - A term from 2026 describing the practice of orchestrating AI agents to write code under human supervision . AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) - A theoretical system capable of performing any cognitive task a human can do at a human level or better . AI Act (EU) - Regulations from the European Union that classify AI systems based on their risk levels, which began phasing in through 2026 . AI winter - Historical timeframes in the 1970s and late 1980s where funding and interest in AI research significantly dropped . Alignment - The field of study focused on ensuring AI systems pursue the actual goals intended by their human operators . ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) - A hypothetical AI system that would be significantly smarter than humans in every possible domain . Attention - The core mechanism of transformer architectures that determines which other tokens in a sequence are most relevant to a specific token This content was created through personal research with the help of NotebookLM.