Issue 13 · Nov 2–8, 2026Editions · Glossary · Archive · Method · RSS · HU / ENG

News of the AI era, curated weekly

Glossary

866 concepts from the agent era explained plainly: what each means, how it works, who it affects, the common misconception, and where it appears in Agent Age news.

Kezdd itt

The key basic concepts: from the general to agents and specialist fields.

  1. artificial intelligence
  2. machine learning
  3. deep learning
  4. Neural network
  5. algorithm (algorithm)
  6. AI-modell (AI model)
  7. foundation model (foundation model)
  8. large language model (large language model)
  9. transformer (transformer)
  10. generative AI
  11. multimodal model
  12. reasoning model
  13. chatbot
  14. parameter
  15. training
  16. training data
  17. fine-tuning
  18. reinforcement learning
  19. inferencia (inference)
  20. prompt
  21. token
  22. context window (context window)
  23. hallucination
  24. benchmark
  25. frontier modell
  26. open-weight model
  27. computing capacity (compute)
  28. GPU (graphics processing unit (GPU))
  29. data center
  30. general AI (artificial general intelligence)

In the news now

The concepts that appeared most often in Agent Age stories over the past four weeks

OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence company that develops and sells ChatGPT and the GPT language models behind it.

basic · 400 news items

agent

angolul: AI agent

An agent is an artificial intelligence program that not only responds but independently plans, uses tools, and completes tasks in multiple steps to achieve a given goal.

basic · 772 news items

Anthropic

Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence company developing the Claude language models and AI agents built on them, with a strong focus on safety.

basic · 238 news items

code repository

A code repository is a shared, organized location for all files of a program that records every modification: who changed what and when.

basic · 1846 news items

repo

angolul: repository

A repository is a shared storage for all files in a project that preserves every recorded change, allowing any previous recorded state to be retrieved and restored.

basic · 1859 news items

expenditure

angolul: release

A release is a finalized, version-numbered state of a software or AI model that the creators officially hand over to users.

basic · 132 news items

Microsoft

An American software and cloud giant that offers the Windows and Office suites, the Copilot AI assistant, and enterprise tools for AI agents.

basic · 148 news items

Nvidia

Nvidia is an American chip design company whose graphics processors run a significant portion of today's AI systems, from chatbots to AI agents.

basic · 111 news items

data center

A data center is a building where many computers, sometimes thousands, operate in one place: this is where data for internet services and AI is stored and processed.

basic · 292 news items

Claude

Claude is the family of artificial intelligence models and conversational assistant from the US company Anthropic, which understands and writes text, answers questions, codes, and performs tasks independently.

basic · 207 news items

Google

An American technology giant known for its search engine and one of the largest developers and providers of artificial intelligence with the Gemini model family.

basic · 326 news items

initial public offering

An initial public offering is the step where a company previously owned by a closed circle first offers its shares for purchase by anyone on the stock exchange.

basic · 37 news items

Basics

AI fever

angolul: AI hype

AI hype is the heightened expectation and frenzy that portrays artificial intelligence as more powerful, faster, and closer than it actually is today.

basic · 32 news items

AI safety

AI safety is concerned with making sure artificial intelligence does what we expect of it and causes no harm, either by accident or in the wrong hands.

basic · 38 news items

AI-based search

angolul: AI search / AI answers

A type of search where the AI does not give a list of links but, based on the sources it finds, writes a complete, ready-made answer to your question.

basic · 129 news items

AI-modell

angolul: AI model

An AI model is a program trained on countless examples that responds, predicts, recognizes, or creates new content based on learned patterns.

basic · 86 news items

foundation model

angolul: foundation model

A foundation model is a general-purpose AI model trained on vast amounts of data, serving as a base for various applications from chatbots to image generators.

basic · 12 news items

algorithm

angolul: algorithm

An algorithm is a finite sequence of unambiguous steps that, when followed precisely, yields a result within finite time for any allowed starting data of a given task type—whether executed by a human or a computer.

basic · 37 news items

alignment

angolul: AI alignment

Alignment means that artificial intelligence operates according to people's true intentions and values, not just fulfilling what was literally asked of it.

basic · 2 news items

artificial intelligence

A collective term for computer systems that solve tasks requiring human thought: they understand text, recognize images, prepare decisions, and learn from examples.

basic · 178 news items

artificial superintelligence

A hypothetical artificial intelligence that would vastly surpass the best humans in virtually every intellectual task; it does not exist yet.

basic · 12 news items

benchmark

A benchmark is a standardized set of tasks and evaluation method used to measure the performance of different AI models on the same scale, ensuring comparable results.

basic · 34 news items

chatbot

A chatbot is a program with which you can converse in writing or speech using everyday language, and which answers your questions immediately in a human style.

basic · 190 news items

computing capacity

angolul: compute

Computational capacity is the machine "muscle power" – chips, servers, and electricity – required to train and operate an AI model.

basic · 53 news items

context engineering

The conscious planning of exactly what information, instructions, and tools the AI receives for a task, no more and no less.

advanced

data center

A data center is a building where many computers, sometimes thousands, operate in one place: this is where data for internet services and AI is stored and processed.

basic · 292 news items

deep learning

Deep learning is a method of machine learning in which a multi-layered artificial neural network learns on its own to recognize patterns from a vast number of examples.

basic · 1 news item

deepfake

A deepfake is an image, audio, or video created or altered with artificial intelligence that appears deceptively real, typically showing a real person in a situation that never occurred.

basic · 139 news items

diffusion model

An AI model that starts from random noise and creates new images, videos, or audio by cleaning it step by step.

advanced

eval

angolul: evaluation (eval)

An eval is a systematic test that measures how well, reliably, and securely an AI model or agent performs on pre-defined tasks.

basic · 42 news items

few-shot prompt

angolul: few-shot prompting

An instruction where you show the artificial intelligence a few worked-out example cases so it can solve your task in the same style and format based on them.

basic · 1 news item

fine-tuning

Fine-tuning is the further training of an already trained AI model on specific, targeted examples to better handle a particular task, style, or field.

basic · 1 news item

frontier modell

A frontier model is the most advanced, most capable general-purpose AI model at a given moment, representing the cutting edge of technology, i.e., the current limit.

basic · 24 news items

general AI

angolul: artificial general intelligence

A theoretical artificial intelligence that can solve almost any intellectual task at least as well as a skilled human.

basic · 5 news items

generative AI

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content upon your request: text, images, audio, video, or source code.

basic · 115 news items

GPU

angolul: graphics processing unit (GPU)

A GPU is a computer chip that performs many simple calculations simultaneously, making it today's most important tool for training and running artificial intelligence.

basic · 5 news items

grounding

Grounding means that the AI bases its answer on verifiable sources—documents, databases, fresh search results—rather than solely on its trained memory.

basic · 32 news items

hallucination

Hallucination is when artificial intelligence confidently states something untrue or simply made up in a plausible form.

basic · 28 news items

in-context learning

A language model infers a new task on the fly from examples and instructions entered into the conversation, without retraining.

advanced · 1 news item

inferencia

angolul: inference

Inference is the moment when a trained AI model works: generating an answer, image, or decision from your query or other input.

basic · 3 news items

small language model

angolul: small language model

A text-understanding and text-writing AI model that is much smaller than large models, allowing it to run cheaply and quickly on phones, laptops, or corporate machines.

basic

context window

angolul: context window

The context window is the amount of text an AI model can see and consider at once when answering you.

basic · 2 news items

machine learning

Machine learning is a method by which a computer learns how to solve a task not from pre-written rules but from many examples.

basic · 9 news items

multimodal model

An artificial intelligence model capable of interpreting not only text but also images, audio, or video, and often responding in multiple formats.

basic · 2 news items

large language model

angolul: large language model

An artificial intelligence program trained on huge amounts of text that interprets your question or request and responds in human language with coherent text.

basic · 19 news items

Neural network

A neural network is a computer model that learns to recognize patterns from many examples, loosely inspired by the network of neurons in the human brain.

basic

next-token prediction

The core operation of a language model is to estimate, based on prior text, the likelihood of each word fragment, select one, and build its response piece by piece.

basic

open-source AI

Artificial intelligence whose model, and ideally the details of its training, is published by its creator for free use, allowing anyone to download, examine, modify, and run it on their own machine.

basic · 20 news items

open-weight model

An AI model whose trained parameters (weights) are published by its creator, allowing anyone to download, run on their own machine, and further fine-tune it according to the license terms.

basic · 19 news items

parameter

A parameter is a number inside an AI model, set by the model during training; billions of them together carry its knowledge.

basic · 5 news items

prompt

A prompt is the request or instruction, usually text but sometimes a spoken sentence or image, that you give to artificial intelligence to get a response, write something, create an image, or perform a task.

basic · 68 news items

prompt caching

Prompt caching means the AI provider remembers the repeating parts of requests, so it does not have to reprocess them every time, resulting in cheaper and faster responses.

advanced · 1 news item

RAG

angolul: retrieval-augmented generation

A method in which artificial intelligence, before answering, retrieves the document passages relevant to the question and formulates its answer based on them.

basic · 1 news item

reasoning effort

A setting that determines how much the AI 'thinks' before answering: more thinking yields a more thorough but slower and more expensive response.

advanced · 13 news items

reasoning model

A language model that reasons step-by-step before answering, making it slower but more reliable for complex questions.

basic

recursive self-improvement

The process in which an AI system improves its own capabilities, and the better version then develops itself even more effectively, cycle after cycle.

advanced · 4 news items

reinforcement learning

A machine learning method where the program discovers good behavior through trial and error based on rewards and penalties.

basic

scaling laws

Empirical correlations about how much an AI model's performance improves when increasing its size, the amount of training data, and computing capacity.

advanced

structured output

Structured output is an AI response that is not free text but data in a predefined, fixed format, allowing another program to process it directly.

advanced

sycophancy

Sycophancy is the phenomenon where artificial intelligence says what you want to hear rather than what is true or useful.

basic

synthetic data

angolul: synthetic data

Artificially generated data that mimics the characteristics of real data but does not originate from real people or events.

basic

token

A token is a text fragment (word, word fragment, or punctuation mark) into which the language model splits text for processing and generation, and which is also used to measure usage.

basic · 35 news items

training

Training is the process by which an AI model learns to perform its task through countless examples, trials, and corrections.

basic · 193 news items

training data

Training data is the text, images, audio or other examples from which an artificial intelligence model learns patterns before you start using it.

basic · 8 news items

transformer

angolul: transformer

The transformer is the neural network architecture that examines every part of a text simultaneously in relation to each other; almost all modern chatbots and language models are built on this.

advanced · 6 news items

usage limit

angolul: rate limit / usage limit

A usage limit sets how much of an AI service you can use in a given period; if you exceed it, you have to wait or pay more.

basic · 132 news items

world model

A world model is an AI system's internal picture of how its environment works, which lets it predict what will happen after its next action.

advanced · 2 news items

Language models

alignment

angolul: AI alignment

Alignment is the work done to ensure artificial intelligence pursues the goal people actually intend, rather than just fulfilling the instruction literally.

advanced · 2 news items

batch processing

Submitting many AI requests at once in a batch, where the response arrives within hours rather than immediately, in exchange for a much lower price.

advanced

chain of thought

Chain of thought is the method where a language model describes step-by-step how it reaches the solution before giving the final answer.

advanced · 2 news items

closed model

angolul: closed model / proprietary model

An AI model whose internals, i.e., its weights, are not released by the developing company: you can typically use it only through its service or partners, under its own terms.

basic · 2 news items

coding model

A language model trained to write, fix, and explain program code, capable of creating working code segments from requests phrased in everyday language.

basic · 11 news items

Constitutional AI

A training method in which a language model evaluates and corrects its own answers based on a described set of principles, the 'constitution', to learn safe behavior.

advanced

context degradation

angolul: context rot

Context degradation is the phenomenon where a language model works less accurately as more text accumulates in the conversation or task.

advanced

Distillation

Distillation is a process where the knowledge of a large, expensive AI model is taught to a smaller, faster, and cheaper model.

advanced

DPO

angolul: Direct Preference Optimization

A fine-tuning method where a language model learns from response pairs which answer humans prefer, without a separate reward model.

professional

embedding

Embedding converts text, images, or audio into a sequence of numbers so that items with similar meanings have number sequences close to each other.

advanced

emergent capabilities

angolul: emergent abilities

Capabilities that no one specifically trained the language model on still emerge when the model grows large enough.

advanced · 1 news item

figyelemmechanizmus

angolul: attention mechanism

The attention mechanism is the method by which an AI model, such as a language model, decides which parts of the input (for example, a text) are important for interpreting a specific part, such as a word.

advanced · 33 news items

function calling

angolul: function calling / tool calling

Function calling is the capability by which a language model not only writes text but also requests an external program or tool to perform a task.

advanced · 3 news items

jailbreak

A jailbreak is a cleverly phrased request that persuades an AI to break its own safety rules and produce prohibited content.

basic

knowledge cutoff

It is the date until which a language model's training data extends; the model does not know anything about what happened after that.

basic

KV-cache

angolul: KV cache (key-value cache)

The KV cache is the language model's temporary scratchpad: it keeps the partial calculations for text already processed, so the model does not have to recalculate everything for every new word.

professional

LLM as judge

angolul: LLM-as-a-judge

An evaluation method where a language model scores or rates the responses of another AI system based on predefined criteria, replacing human judges.

advanced · 3 news items

LMArena

A public website where users anonymously choose between responses from paired AI models, generating a continuously updated ranking based on the votes.

advanced · 2 news items

long context

Long context means that the language model can consider a very large amount of text at once—sometimes equivalent to several books—in its response.

advanced · 1 news item

LoRA

angolul: Low-Rank Adaptation

A resource-efficient fine-tuning method that leaves the large AI model untouched and trains only a small, interchangeable add-on for the new task.

professional

mechanistic interpretability

A research field that reverse-engineers the internal workings of artificial intelligence: it looks for which parts of the model produce the answer, and through what computations.

professional

model card

A model card is a short, public data sheet for an AI model: it describes its purpose, training data, performance on tests, and what it should not be used for.

basic

model selector

angolul: model router / model picker

The model selector decides which AI model will answer your question: either you choose from a menu, or the system chooses automatically for you.

advanced · 3 news items

MoE

angolul: mixture of experts

A model architecture in which most of the neural network consists of many smaller, specialized parts, and only a few of them work on each tiny piece of text (token).

advanced · 2 news items

language model

angolul: language model

A computer program that has learned from vast amounts of text which words usually follow one another, and based on this, can process and write text.

basic · 23 news items

Ollama

Ollama is a free, open-source program that lets you download and run open-weight language models on your own computer with a few simple commands or in a basic chat window.

advanced · 3 news items

open-source model

An AI model whose weights, and ideally its code and training details, are made freely downloadable by its creator, allowing anyone to run it on their own machine, examine it, and adapt it for their own purposes within the license framework.

basic · 19 news items

post-training

Post-training is the second phase of language model training, in which a raw, text-completing model becomes a helpful, instruction-following, and safely behaving assistant.

advanced · 1 news item

pre-training

Pretraining is the long, costly first learning phase in which an AI model acquires general language and world knowledge from vast amounts of data, primarily text in the case of language models.

advanced

prompt engineering

Prompt engineering is the art of phrasing your request to a language model so that you get exactly the answer you need.

basic · 5 news items

prompt injection

An attack in which someone slips an instruction into the text read by a language model so that the model follows the attacker's instruction instead of the developer's or user's intent.

advanced · 8 news items

prompt leakage

Prompt leakage occurs when an AI chatbot reveals the hidden instructions given to it by its operator in the background, which the user should not see.

advanced

quantization

Quantization is the storage of AI model numbers in a coarser, more space-efficient format to make the model smaller and faster, at the cost of slight quality degradation.

advanced

refusal

Refusal occurs when a language model does not fulfill a request because it deems it harmful, illegal, or contrary to its rules.

basic · 3 news items

system prompt

angolul: system prompt

The system prompt is the background instruction set that defines how the AI should behave, what role to play, and what rules to follow before the conversation even starts.

basic

RLHF

angolul: reinforcement learning from human feedback

A training method where humans evaluate the language model's responses, and the model learns from these evaluations what kind of response we consider good.

advanced

sampling

Sampling is the step where the language model selects one word from the possible next words based on probabilities, partly randomly.

advanced · 1 news item

scaffolding

Scaffolding is the software framework around the language model that provides it with tools, memory, and a workflow to perform tasks independently.

advanced · 16 news items

speculative decoding

Acceleration method: a small, fast model guesses the next parts of the text, and the large model only checks and corrects them if necessary.

professional

streaming

Streaming means the AI response does not arrive all at once but appears continuously on the screen in small chunks as the model generates it.

basic · 3 news items

supervised fine-tuning (SFT)

Further training of an already trained language model on question-answer pairs to perform a specific task or style more reliably.

advanced

temperature

Temperature is a setting that determines how predictable or how varied and surprising the language model's answer to the same question will be.

advanced · 1 news item

test-time computation

angolul: test-time compute

This is the computational work the language model performs while answering your question: the more it can 'think', the better the answer may be.

advanced

thinking token

angolul: reasoning tokens / thinking tokens

A thinking token is the text unit a language model uses before the final answer to reason through the task step by step, for which payment is usually required.

advanced

token-based pricing

angolul: per-token pricing

A pricing scheme where the AI provider bills based on the amount of text processed, meaning the number of input and generated tokens.

basic

tokenization

Tokenization is the step where a program breaks text into small, numbered pieces—tokens—because the language model can only work with such units.

basic · 2 news items

top-p

The top-p setting determines from how large a pool of the most likely candidates the language model can sample the next word.

advanced · 3 news items

transformer

The transformer is a neural network architecture that examines every part of a text simultaneously in relation to each other; today's large language models are built on this.

advanced · 6 news items

VLM

angolul: vision-language model

An AI model that understands both images and text simultaneously, so it can say what is visible in a photo and answer questions about it.

advanced · 1 news item

weight

A weight is a number in an artificial neural network that indicates how much a connection matters; the model's knowledge resides in these numbers.

basic · 10 news items

zero-shot prompting

A request to a language model where you only describe the task without providing examples, and the model solves it using its existing knowledge.

basic

Agents

agent

angolul: AI agent

An agent is an artificial intelligence program that not only responds but independently plans, uses tools, and completes tasks in multiple steps to achieve a given goal.

basic · 772 news items

agent identity

Agent identity is the AI agent's own verifiable digital identity, revealing who it is, on whose behalf it acts, and what it is authorized to do.

advanced · 1 news item

agent memory

Agent memory is the stored knowledge from which the AI agent can later retrieve what it learned, what it did, and what you asked of it.

advanced

agent mode

The mode of an AI tool in which it not only answers your question but also independently completes assigned tasks in multiple steps.

basic · 4 news items

agent orchestration

Agent orchestration is the coordination of multiple AI agents: someone or something assigns subtasks, monitors the sequence, and merges the results.

advanced

agent-benchmark

angolul: agent benchmark

The agent benchmark is a standardized set of tasks used to measure how often an AI agent independently solves real-world-like tasks in multiple steps.

advanced · 1 news item

agent-ciklus

angolul: agent loop

The agent cycle is the repeating loop in which an AI agent thinks, acts, reviews the result, and decides again until the task is completed.

advanced

agent-keretrendszer

angolul: agent framework

An agent framework is a software toolkit that allows developers to assemble autonomous AI agents without having to write everything from scratch.

advanced · 3 news items

agent-platform

angolul: agent platform

A software environment where AI agents can be built, connected to tools, run, and monitored without having to write everything from scratch.

advanced · 7 news items

Agent2Agent (A2A)

angolul: Agent2Agent protocol

An open standard that provides a common language for AI agents from different companies to find each other, hand over tasks, and work together.

advanced · 5 news items

agentic advertising

Advertising where campaigns are planned, purchased, and refined independently by AI agents, with humans providing only the goal and framework.

advanced · 5 news items

Agentic AI Foundation

A neutral organization operating under the Linux Foundation that maintains common, open standards and tools for AI agents to ensure they are not owned by a single company.

advanced · 1 news item

agentic checkout

An online purchase where you do not click through the order and payment yourself, but an AI agent acting on your behalf handles it at the online store.

advanced · 18 news items

agentic commerce

A purchase in which an AI agent, on your behalf, searches for, compares, orders, and even pays for a product or service.

basic · 67 news items

agentic payment

angolul: agentic payments

A payment that you do not initiate manually, but one that an AI agent executes based on your instruction within the limits you set in advance.

advanced · 27 news items

agentic AI

angolul: agentic AI

Artificial intelligence that not only answers your question but also carries out the goal it is given on its own, in several steps, using tools.

basic · 77 news items

agentikus munkafolyamat

angolul: agentic workflow

A working method where AI does not give a single answer but plans in multiple steps, uses tools, checks the result, and corrects it.

advanced · 3 news items

agentikus RAG

angolul: agentic RAG (agentic retrieval-augmented generation)

An AI solution where an agent itself decides what, where, and how many times to search sources before formulating an answer.

advanced

AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md is a simple text file in a software project folder that describes how coding AI agents should work on that project.

advanced · 5 news items

AI wallet

A digital wallet from which an AI agent can pay on your behalf, within limits you set, autonomously.

advanced · 3 news items

AI assistant

angolul: AI assistant

An artificial intelligence-based program with which you can converse in everyday language, and which responds to your requests, writes text, summarizes, or performs simpler tasks for you.

basic · 51 news items

allowlist

An allowlist is a precompiled list of actions an AI agent may perform without separate permission; anything not on it cannot be done, or requires prior approval.

advanced

Antigravity

angolul: Google Antigravity

Google's developer program in which AI agents independently plan, write, and test software, while humans assign tasks and review their work.

advanced · 2 news items

asset definition

angolul: tool definition / tool schema

A tool definition is a short, machine-readable description of what a tool is for, when to use it, and what data must be provided for it.

advanced

authorization management

angolul: permission management

Regulating what an AI agent can access, what it can do autonomously, and what requires prior human approval.

advanced · 2 news items

automated researcher

An AI agent that largely independently carries out the steps of a research project—from posing the question, through gathering sources and conducting experiments, to writing the results.

advanced · 4 news items

autonomy

Autonomy shows how much an AI agent can decide and execute independently without seeking human approval at every step.

basic · 6 news items

background agent

An AI agent that independently completes the assigned task in the background while you focus on something else, then reports the result.

advanced · 2 news items

browser agent

An AI agent that manages a web browser on your behalf: it opens pages, clicks, fills out forms, and completes assigned tasks in multiple steps.

basic · 1 news item

checkpoint

A checkpoint is a save point in an AI agent's work: if something goes wrong, you can roll back here and try again from this point.

advanced

Claude Cowork

Anthropic's desktop AI agent, which carries out office tasks on its own, in multiple steps, in folders you designate on your computer, rather than just giving advice.

basic · 6 news items

CLAUDE.md

A simple text file where you describe the project rules and details to the Claude Code agent, which the agent reads at the start of every session.

advanced

code interpreter

angolul: code interpreter / code execution tool

A tool that allows AI not only to write code but also to run it in an isolated, secure environment and continue working based on the real output.

advanced · 1 news item

coding agent

An AI program that independently writes, runs, tests, and fixes code based on a task formulated in everyday language, in multiple steps, until it reaches a working solution or gets stuck.

advanced · 88 news items

computer use

An AI capability where the model handles the computer like a human: it looks at the screen, clicks, types, and scrolls.

advanced · 3 news items

context compression

angolul: context compaction

The AI agent replaces earlier parts of a long conversation or work session with a short summary to leave room for continuation.

advanced

Customer service agent

An AI program that, in customer service, not only answers your question but also handles your case: for example, modifying your order or initiating a refund.

basic · 1 news item

deep research

An AI mode in which an agent searches and reads on the web independently for minutes, then writes a source-backed summary report on your question.

basic

Devin

Devin is Cognition's coding agent, which independently plans, writes, tests, and then hands over a software development task to a human for review.

advanced · 90 news items

digital colleague

angolul: digital coworker

An AI agent that does not just answer individual questions but works as a colleague with its own scope of tasks and access, independently executing workflows within a team.

basic · 6 news items

digital twin

A digital twin is a computerized replica of a real object—machine, building, process, or even a person—continuously updated with live data, allowing experiments without risking the real thing.

advanced · 26 news items

excessive agency

Security risk: an AI agent is granted more tools, access, or autonomy than needed for its task, so a mistake or deception could cause real harm.

advanced

function calling

The capability by which a language model not only writes text but requests the program in a structured format to execute a predefined operation.

advanced · 3 news items

Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI is Google's open-source AI agent that works in your computer's command line: it reads files, writes code, and executes commands on your request.

advanced · 3 news items

guardrail

A guardrail is an embedded rule or check that limits an AI system or agent from performing harmful, prohibited, or out-of-scope actions.

basic · 11 news items

harness

angolul: agent harness

A harness is the software framework around an AI model that provides tools, memory, and rules, turning the model into an independently working agent.

advanced · 16 news items

headless mode

A mode in which the AI agent runs in the background without a screen or chat window and without human involvement, delivering only the final result.

advanced

hook

A hook is a pre-set, automatic step that always runs at a specific point in an AI agent's workflow, regardless of what the agent is thinking.

advanced

HR-agent

angolul: HR agent (recruiting agent)

An AI agent that independently performs routine recruitment tasks: searching for candidates, screening resumes, answering questions, and scheduling interviews.

basic · 11 news items

human-in-the-loop

An operating mode in which the AI pauses before important steps and continues work only after human approval.

basic · 3 news items

interoperability

Interoperability means that AI agents, programs, and data sources from different manufacturers can work together under common rules without separate conversion.

advanced · 4 news items

Jules

Jules is Google's coding agent, which works independently in the cloud and in the background on software code, then presents the result to you for approval.

advanced · 1 news item

Know Your Agent (KYA)

The practice of identifying AI agents: verifying who stands behind the agent, on whose behalf it acts, and what authorization it has received.

advanced · 4 news items

LangChain

angolul: LangChain / LangGraph

LangChain is an open-source developer toolkit for building AI applications and agents from language models, data sources, and tools; LangGraph is its process-control counterpart.

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lethal trifecta

The dangerous situation where an AI agent simultaneously accesses your private data, reads untrusted content, and can send data out to the outside world.

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long-horizon task

A complex task that an AI agent can only perform by working independently over a long period through many sequential steps.

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Manus

Manus is a general-purpose AI agent that independently completes a task in the cloud on its own virtual computer and delivers a finished result.

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Model Context Protocol (MCP)

An open standard that provides a unified interface for AI assistants and agents to access external programs, data, and services.

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multiagent rendszer

angolul: multi-agent system

A system in which multiple agents divide tasks among themselves and typically solve problems collaboratively, building on each other's work.

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munkamenet

angolul: session

A session is a continuous conversation or task with the AI, throughout which the system remembers what was said and done.

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n8n

n8n is a visual workflow automation tool with which you can connect applications and build AI agents by linking boxes, requiring little programming.

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observability

Observability means that the operation of a system—here an AI agent—is traceable from its recorded data: every step is reviewable, so it can be determined afterward what it did, in what order, and where it made a mistake.

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OpenClaw

An open-source, locally run personal AI agent that you instruct via a chat application and which independently handles tasks on your behalf.

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orchestrator–worker minta

angolul: orchestrator-worker pattern

A way of organizing work in which an orchestrating AI agent splits the job into subtasks, assigns them to executing agents, and then merges their results into a single answer.

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OSWorld

OSWorld is a test suite measuring how well an AI agent can independently perform everyday computer tasks on a real operating system with real software.

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permission mode

A setting that defines what an AI agent can do independently and what requires your prior permission.

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personal agent

An AI program that, on behalf of a single person and with access to their data and accounts, independently handles daily tasks.

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planning

Planning is the ability of an AI agent to break down a larger goal into steps, order them, and adjust as needed during execution.

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proactive agent

An AI agent that does not wait for your instruction but monitors the situation in the background and speaks or acts on its own when it sees you need it.

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ReAct

ReAct is an operational pattern where the AI agent alternates between thinking and acting: it weighs options, uses a tool, checks the result, then weighs again.

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rogue agent

An AI agent that steps outside its set boundaries: it does something other than what it was assigned, potentially causing harm.

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sandbox

A sandbox is an isolated, safe test environment where a program or AI agent can work without harming the real system even if an error occurs.

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self-reflection

The AI agent reviews its own work, searches for errors, and makes improvements based on lessons learned before delivering a final result.

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shopping agent

An AI program that searches for products on your behalf, compares offers, and, if permitted, handles the order and payment for you.

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skill

angolul: agent skill

A skill is a packaged guide that the AI agent only retrieves when it needs it for a specific type of task.

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slash command

A short command starting with a slash, with which you issue a pre-prepared, longer instruction or built-in function to an AI agent or chatbot with a single word.

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specification-driven development

angolul: spec-driven development

A software development method where a detailed written description of what the program must do is created first, and the AI agent writes the code based on this.

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subagent

A subagent is an assistant agent launched by another AI agent for a well-defined subtask, which returns only the result at the end.

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szoftverrobot (RPA)

angolul: robotic process automation

A software robot is a program that clicks, types, and copies data between computer programs according to pre-written rules, instead of a human.

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task decomposition

Task decomposition is when an AI agent breaks down a large, complex task into smaller, individually executable steps and solves them sequentially or in parallel.

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Terminal-Bench

An open test series measuring how well an AI agent can independently perform real, multi-step computer tasks via the command line.

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tokenkeret

angolul: token budget / thinking budget

The token limit is a predefined upper bound on how much text an AI model or agent can process and how much it can "think" on a task.

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tool search

An AI agent does not retain descriptions of all its tools in memory but retrieves and loads only the few it needs during a task.

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tool use

Tool use is the capability by which an AI model calls external programs (search engine, calculator, calendar, database) for help, so it does not just answer from memory but retrieves fresh data, calculates precisely, or performs an operation.

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trajectory

angolul: agent trajectory

A trajectory is the complete recorded path of an AI agent during a task: its written-out reasoning, steps, tool usage, and the results it received, in sequence, from start to finish.

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voice-based agent

angolul: voice agent

An AI agent with which you converse in real time, which not only answers but also independently handles what you request during the conversation.

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workflow automation

Handing over repetitive, multi-step tasks to software that completes the job using pre-defined rules or AI without human clicking.

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YOLO mode

A setting in which an AI agent does not request permission before each step but executes everything autonomously without stopping.

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Generative media

3D generation

During 3D generation, artificial intelligence creates a rotatable, spatial model from a text description or photograph, for example an object, figure, or building.

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Adobe Firefly

Adobe Firefly is Adobe's family of artificial intelligence tools that generate images, video, audio, and graphics, integrated into Photoshop and other company software.

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AI advertising

angolul: AI-generated advertising

An advertisement whose image, video, audio, or text was partially or entirely generated by artificial intelligence, without a crew, photographer, or copywriter.

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AI art

An image, music, video, or other work created partially or entirely by artificial intelligence, usually based on a human text prompt.

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AI avatar

A human-like digital character created with artificial intelligence that delivers the given text with a lifelike face, voice, and lip movement in a video or live conversation.

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AI content labeling

A visible label or hidden signal in a file indicating that an image, video, audio, or text was created or modified by artificial intelligence.

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AI dubbing

A technology that translates speech from a video or audio recording into another language via machine processing and has it spoken in a voice resembling the original speaker.

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AI image editing

Transforming an existing photo or image with artificial intelligence: you specify what should change with words or selection, and the program realistically redraws the image.

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AI slop

AI slop is mass-produced, low-quality content generated by artificial intelligence, not intended for readers but for clicks, flooding the internet.

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AI watermark

angolul: AI watermarking

An AI watermark is a signal that is invisible to the eye but machine-readable, which an artificial intelligence system embeds in the images, audio, video or text it creates.

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AI-generated content

Text, image, audio, video, or program code whose substantial part was not created by a human but by artificial intelligence, typically based on human instructions.

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arccsere

angolul: face swap

Face swapping is a process that uses artificial intelligence to replace a person's face in an image or video with another person's face, producing a realistic result.

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CFG scale

angolul: classifier-free guidance (CFG) scale

The CFG scale is a configurable number that determines how closely an image-generating AI follows your text prompt and how much freedom it is granted.

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ComfyUI

A free, open-source program in which you assemble how artificial intelligence creates images, videos, or audio by connecting boxes with lines.

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content provenance verification

A digitally signed data sheet attached to an image, video, or audio, showing who created or modified the content, with what, and how, and where subsequent tampering is detectable.

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ControlNet

ControlNet is an add-on for image-generating AI that allows you to precisely define how the image is constructed using a sketch, pose, or outline.

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deepfake detection

A collection of methods and tools used to determine whether a video, image, or audio recording was created or forged by artificial intelligence.

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digital likeness

angolul: AI twin / digital double

An AI-generated copy of a real person that speaks with their face, voice and style in video or live conversation.

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ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an artificial intelligence company and service that creates lifelike human voices from written text and can also clone existing voices.

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flow matching

A teaching method where an AI that creates images, audio, or video learns how to reach the final content from random noise via the most direct path possible.

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Flux

Flux is the image-generation model family of the German Black Forest Labs, which creates realistic images from text descriptions and can also edit existing images.

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generative adversarial network

An AI method in which two neural networks compete: one generates fakes, the other tries to expose them, making the fakes increasingly realistic.

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generative media

An image, video, audio, or music that was not recorded by a camera or microphone but generated by artificial intelligence, mostly based on text instructions.

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GPT Image

GPT Image is OpenAI's image generation model family, the successor to DALL-E: it draws images or transforms existing ones based on text prompts, and is also available in ChatGPT.

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image generation

Image generation is the artificial intelligence process that creates a completely new image from a text description or reference image in a few seconds.

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image to video

angolul: image-to-video

An AI method that creates a few seconds of video from a single still image: it imagines how the scene visible in the image would move.

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inpainting

Inpainting is an image editing process where artificial intelligence fills or replaces a selected part of an image with new content that fits the surroundings.

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karakterkonzisztencia

angolul: character consistency

The ability of image- or video-generating AI to make the same character look recognizably the same across multiple images and scenes.

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Kling

angolul: Kling AI

Kling is the video-generating artificial intelligence of the Chinese company Kuaishou, which produces short, typically 5–15 second, realistic moving images from text descriptions or still images.

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latent space

The latent space is the model's internal, numerical map where similar images, sounds, or texts are positioned close to each other.

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lip-syncing

angolul: lip sync

An AI procedure that retrospectively adjusts the lip movements of a person or figure in a video to match an audio recording, making it appear as if they are actually saying it.

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music generation

Music generation is when an artificial intelligence creates new music, including vocals and lyrics, on its own based on a text description or other guidance.

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Nano Banana

Nano Banana is the nickname for Google Gemini's image generation and editing model: it draws images from text prompts or transforms your existing photos.

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negative prompt

A negative prompt is a specific instruction to an image- or video-generating AI in which you list what the finished work should not contain.

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non-consensual intimate image

angolul: non-consensual intimate imagery

An image or video of someone that is nude or sexually explicit, created, forged, or shared without the subject's consent.

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outpainting

Outpainting is an AI image editing technique that extends an existing image beyond its edges and invents the missing environment in a style-consistent way.

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reference image

An image you provide alongside a text instruction to an image-generating AI to show the style, character, or composition you wish to see.

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Runway

Runway is an American company and online service that uses artificial intelligence to create and edit short videos from text descriptions, images, or existing footage.

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sampling step

angolul: sampling steps

The number of sampling steps shows how many rounds a diffusion-based image-generating AI takes to clear the final image from the initial noise.

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scaling up

angolul: upscaling

Upscaling is increasing the resolution of an image or video so that the program – nowadays typically artificial intelligence – fills in the missing details.

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seed

A seed is a starting number that determines what 'randomness' the generation begins with, most often for creating an image; the same seed with the same model, prompt, and settings typically yields the same result.

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speech recognition

angolul: speech recognition / speech-to-text

Speech recognition is a technology that automatically converts spoken human language into written text, allowing the machine to "transcribe" what you say.

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speech synthesis

angolul: text-to-speech, speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is a technology that converts written text into machine-generated speech resembling a human voice.

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Stable Diffusion

The Stable Diffusion family of AI models that generate images from text descriptions, whose model files anyone can download and even run on their own computer.

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style transfer

An AI method that preserves the content of an image, text, or audio but replaces its appearance with the style of another work or creator.

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Suno

Suno is an artificial intelligence service that, within minutes, turns a text description of a few sentences into a finished song with vocals, instrumentation and lyrics.

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synthetic media

An image, video, audio, or text that was partially or fully generated or altered by artificial intelligence, not by a camera, microphone, or human hand.

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Veo

Veo is Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence model for creating videos, which generates short, lifelike moving images, equipped with sound in newer versions, from text descriptions or images.

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video generation

Video generation is when artificial intelligence independently creates moving images from text descriptions, images, or other videos, without a camera or filming.

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Virtual influencer

A fictional character created by computer or artificial intelligence who posts and advertises on social media as if they were a flesh-and-blood human.

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voice cloning

Voice cloning is an AI procedure that can have any text spoken in a person's voice based on a short recording of their voice.

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voice conversion

angolul: voice conversion / speech-to-speech

An AI method that makes a recorded or live speech sound like another person's voice while preserving the text, rhythm, and intonation.

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Training and data

adatfal

angolul: data wall

The assumed point where AI model development slows down because high-quality, human-written new data for training runs out.

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adathalmaz

angolul: dataset

A dataset is a collection of related, organized data—texts, images, numbers—from which artificial intelligence learns or on which its knowledge is measured.

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backpropagation

The computational procedure by which a neural network works backward from its error to calculate how much each internal setting needs adjustment to be more accurate next time.

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batch size

Batch size indicates how many training examples the artificial intelligence model reviews at once before adjusting its settings once.

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catastrophic forgetting

The phenomenon where an AI model learns something new and suddenly loses a large portion of its previously acquired knowledge.

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Common Crawl

Common Crawl is a non-profit organization and its free, public web archive containing copies of billions of websites, serving as the foundation for training data for many AI models.

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continual learning

A type of machine learning where the model learns new things step by step from sequentially arriving data, ideally without forgetting what it previously knew.

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data augmentation

Data augmentation is a technique that creates new variants of existing training data through small modifications, so that the AI model can learn from a larger and more varied set of examples.

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data cleaning

Data cleaning is the process of finding and correcting faulty, incomplete, duplicate or inconsistent data before it is used for analysis or artificial intelligence training.

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data contamination

Data contamination occurs when an AI model has already seen the test tasks during training, making it appear better on the exam than it truly is.

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data curation

Data curation is the work of selecting, cleaning, organizing, and documenting raw data so that it can reliably be used to train AI or to run AI systems.

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data labeling

Data labeling is the work of adding the correct answer to images, texts, or audio recordings so that artificial intelligence can learn from it.

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data mixture

The data mix shows from which sources and in what proportions the dataset is composed that an AI model learns from.

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data poisoning

Data poisoning is an attack where someone intentionally smuggles false or manipulated data into an AI's training material so that the system later operates incorrectly or in the attacker's favor.

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data usage for model training

angolul: use of data for model training (training data opt-in)

The setting and rule that determines whether the AI provider can use your conversations, files, and content to further train its models.

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differential privacy

A mathematical method that uses intentionally injected random noise to ensure that individual data cannot be inferred from a statistic or an AI model.

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epoch

An epoch is a full learning cycle: the machine learning model goes through all examples used for training once.

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federated learning

A training method in which the AI model learns locally on many devices or at many institutions, and only what it has learned is shared centrally, not the raw data.

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generalization

Generalization is the AI model's ability to correctly apply what it has learned to new cases it never saw during training.

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gradient descent

Gradient descent is the method by which an AI model fine-tunes its internal settings in small steps, gradually reducing its error.

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GRPO

angolul: group relative policy optimization

A training method where the AI model provides multiple answers to a task and learns from those that perform better than the group average.

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Hyperparameter

A hyperparameter is a setting that the model does not learn but is specified externally before training (by the developer or an automatic search program), determining how the model learns and how large it should be.

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instruction fine-tuning

angolul: instruction tuning

Post-training in which a language model practices on many thousands of instruction–response pairs to carry out a request rather than just continuing the text.

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jutalommodell

angolul: reward model

An auxiliary model that scores how good an AI response is, so humans do not have to rate every single response during training.

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learning rate

The learning rate determines how large the steps are by which an AI model adjusts itself during training as it learns from its mistakes.

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loss function

The loss function shows with a number how much the AI model erred; the goal of training is to make this number as small as possible.

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machine unlearning

A procedure that removes the impact of certain data from an already trained AI model afterward without retraining the entire model from scratch.

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memorization

Memorization is when an AI model literally remembers certain details of the training data and can later reproduce them.

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model collapse

The phenomenon in which an AI model's quality degrades from generation to generation because, instead of human content, it increasingly learns from material produced by other models.

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model weights

Model weights are the numbers in which an AI model stores the knowledge acquired during training; these determine what it answers to a question.

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overfitting

Overfitting occurs when an AI model memorizes its training examples, performing well on them but poorly on new, unknown cases.

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PEFT

angolul: parameter-efficient fine-tuning

A family of methods that adapts a large AI model to a task by retraining only a fraction of its internal settings.

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PPO

angolul: Proximal Policy Optimization

A training method in which AI learns from attempts based on rewards, but can only change its behavior slightly at a time.

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preferenciaadat

angolul: preference data

Training data that records which of two or more AI responses people judged better.

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QLoRA

angolul: Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA)

A cost-efficient fine-tuning method: the large language model is loaded in a compressed form, and only small additional layers are trained on it, so often a single graphics card is sufficient.

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reward hacking

Reward hacking occurs when AI does not solve the actual task but finds a loophole to inflate its performance score.

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RL environment

angolul: reinforcement learning environment (RL environment)

An RL environment is an artificial training ground where the AI tries actions, receives points for them, and thus learns the task.

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RLAIF

angolul: reinforcement learning from AI feedback

A training method in which the responses of a language model are evaluated not by humans but by an AI model, and the trained model learns from this feedback.

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RLVR

angolul: reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards

A training method in which the AI model receives a reward only if its answer proves correct through machine-based, unambiguous verification.

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self-supervised learning

A machine learning method in which the model learns without human labels: it creates tasks from raw data itself, typically by trying to guess hidden parts of the data.

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structured data

Data organized into a predefined order – rows, columns, named fields – that the computer can search, sort, and aggregate precisely without interpretation.

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supervised learning

A machine learning method in which the machine learns from examples with correct answers how to give a good answer on its own to new cases.

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tesztadatok

angolul: test data

Test data consists of set-aside examples that the AI model never saw during training, on which its actual performance is finally measured.

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training

Training is the process in which an AI model learns from countless examples, through gradual attempts and corrections, how to solve a task.

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training data

Training data are the examples – texts, images, audio, numbers – from which artificial intelligence learns what it later knows.

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training data summary

A public document in which a general-purpose AI model developer outlines, as required by EU regulations, on what content the model was trained.

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training run

A training run is a single, end-to-end process of training an AI model, during which the model learns its task from the data.

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transfer learning

A training method where an AI model transfers knowledge gained from a previous task to a new, related task, so it does not need to learn from scratch.

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underfitting

Underfitting means an AI model is too simple or has learned too little, so it fails to recognize even basic relationships in the training data.

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unstructured data

Data without a predefined, tabular (row-and-column) structure: free text, images, audio, video, email content, or scanned documents.

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unsupervised learning

A type of machine learning where the program, without pre-defined correct answers, independently searches for groups, patterns, and outliers in the data.

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validation set

The validation set is the reserved part of the data on which developers check and tune the model during training, but from which the model does not learn directly.

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web scraping

Web scraping is when a program automatically reads through websites, instead of a person clicking through them, and extracts the data it needs.

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Infrastructure

adatrezidencia

angolul: data residency

Data residency means that a service stores and processes your data in a specific country or region—for example, within the European Union.

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advanced packaging

A collective term for chip assembly processes that integrate multiple separate chips—such as a processor and memory—into a single, densely interconnected unit to work together faster and more efficiently.

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AI energy demand

This is the amount of electricity consumed by training and daily use of artificial intelligence, mainly through machines operating in data centers.

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AI gigafactory

A massive data center housing roughly one hundred thousand high-end AI chips, where the largest artificial intelligence models are trained and operated.

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AI infrastructure

AI infrastructure is the totality of chips, data centers, networks, power supply, and software without which artificial intelligence could not learn and respond.

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AI chip

angolul: AI chip

A computer chip designed or used specifically for the massive, simultaneous calculations required by artificial intelligence.

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AI-crawler

angolul: AI crawler

An AI crawler is an automated program that browses and scans websites so that artificial intelligence can learn from their content or answer questions.

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AI-gateway

angolul: AI gateway / LLM gateway

An intermediary software gateway through which every request intended for an AI model passes, enabling centralized monitoring, control, logging, and accounting.

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Amazon Bedrock

Amazon's cloud service through which companies can rent and integrate large AI models from multiple manufacturers into their own applications without their own servers.

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API

angolul: application programming interface

An API is a predefined rule set that allows one program to request data or a service from another without needing to know its internal workings.

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ASIC

angolul: application-specific integrated circuit

An ASIC is a chip designed for a single task or narrow range of tasks, so it performs that task much faster and with less energy than a general-purpose processor.

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availability

angolul: uptime / availability (SLA)

Availability shows what percentage of the time an IT system or online service is functioning and actually accessible.

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AWS

angolul: Amazon Web Services

AWS is Amazon's cloud service: you can rent computers, storage, and AI tools from it via the internet, and pay only for what you use.

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cache

A cache is a temporary storage that keeps copies of frequently used data on hand so they do not need to be re-downloaded or recalculated every time.

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chip export restriction

angolul: chip export controls

A state regulation that bans or requires a license to sell the most advanced AI chips and the machines needed for their production to certain countries.

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chip manufacturing

Chip manufacturing is the industrial process in which tiny circuits are built layer by layer on silicon wafers – these become the processors and memories of phones, cars and AI systems.

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cloud

angolul: cloud computing

The cloud is computing capacity—storage, processing power, software—that you do not keep on your own machine but use via the internet, typically for a rental fee or subscription.

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contract manufacturer

angolul: semiconductor foundry

A contract manufacturer is a chip factory that does not produce its own products but manufactures chips designed by other companies to order.

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CoreWeave

CoreWeave is an American cloud provider that operates data centers filled with graphics processors needed for artificial intelligence and rents out their computing power to AI companies.

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CUDA

CUDA is Nvidia's software system with which programs can use the graphics card for general-purpose computing, such as running and training artificial intelligence.

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distributed training

Distributed training means that an AI model is trained not by a single machine, but by many processors or computers working in coordination at the same time.

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edge computing

A solution where data is processed where it is generated – on the device or nearby – rather than in a distant data center.

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EUV lithography

A chip manufacturing process that draws extremely dense, fine circuit patterns for the most advanced chips onto silicon using extremely short-wavelength ultraviolet light.

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FLOPS

angolul: floating-point operations per second

FLOPS measures how many floating-point calculations a computer performs in one second – this is the computing power's "horsepower".

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GGUF

GGUF is a file format that packages a language model into a single file so you can run it on your own machine without internet.

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Google Cloud

Google's rentable computer infrastructure and service package on which companies run their programs, store their data, and use artificial intelligence over the internet.

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GPU rental

angolul: GPU rental / cloud capacity lease

GPU rental means you do not buy the expensive computing chips needed for AI, but use them on a provider's machines for an hourly rate or under a long-term contract.

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GPU-klaszter

angolul: GPU cluster

A cluster of networked computers equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs) that work as a single giant machine to train and run artificial intelligence.

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HBM memory

angolul: high-bandwidth memory (HBM)

Extremely fast memory consisting of stacked memory chips, sitting next to AI chips and capable of moving huge amounts of data simultaneously.

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hyperscaler

A hyperscaler is a giant technology company that operates massive data centers worldwide and mostly rents out its computing capacity to others, such as AI developers.

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inference cost

Inference cost is the amount it costs to use an already trained AI model: answering each question consumes computing capacity, electricity, and thus money.

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inferenciachip

angolul: inference chip

A computer chip designed so that already-trained artificial intelligence can answer questions quickly, cheaply, and with low power consumption.

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InfiniBand

InfiniBand is an extremely fast, low-latency networking technology that connects the machines of supercomputers and AI data centers so they can work as a single large machine.

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Kubernetes

An open-source system that automatically starts, monitors, and restarts programs packaged in containers on many servers, and adjusts their number to the load depending on the settings.

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latency

Latency is the time between sending your request and receiving the response – in other words, how long you have to wait for the machine.

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liquid cooling

A cooling method that uses water or another liquid instead of air to dissipate heat from computer chips, especially those running AI servers.

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local execution

angolul: local deployment / on-premises

In local execution, the AI model runs on your own computer or your company's own server, not in a remote data center of an external provider.

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memory chip shortage

The market situation where AI data centers buy up so many memory chips that fewer and more expensive ones remain for phones, laptops, and other devices.

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Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud service: computers, storage, and AI models rentable over the internet, for which you pay based on usage.

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MLOps

angolul: machine learning operations (MLOps)

MLOps is the collection of methods and tools used to reliably deploy, monitor, and continuously update machine learning models.

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model routing

A solution that automatically routes every question to the AI model expected to answer it well enough, yet as quickly and cheaply as possible.

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model serving

Model serving is the background operation that keeps a trained AI model continuously available so you receive an answer to your query within seconds.

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neocloud

A new type of cloud provider that rents out high-performance chips (GPUs) needed almost exclusively for artificial intelligence.

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NPU

angolul: neural processing unit

The NPU is the part of the phone or laptop chip specifically designed for artificial intelligence calculations, performing them locally, quickly, and with low power consumption.

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NVLink

angolul: Nvidia NVLink

NVLink is Nvidia's own high-speed connection that links multiple graphics processors (and their associated central processors) so they work almost like a single giant machine.

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on-device AI

Artificial intelligence that works directly on your phone, laptop, or other device, without sending your data to a remote server.

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power purchase agreement

A long-term agreement in which a buyer – an electricity supplier, trader, or large consumer, such as a data center – purchases electricity directly from a power plant producer at a pre-agreed price or pricing formula, locked in for years.

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PUE

angolul: power usage effectiveness

PUE shows how many times the total power consumption of a data center exceeds what the computers themselves use.

advanced

quantum computer

A computer that uses the laws of quantum physics to solve certain special tasks much faster than current machines.

advanced

reranker

A reranker is an AI model that reorders texts found by the search engine so that those truly answering your question appear first.

advanced

Rubin

angolul: Nvidia Rubin (Vera Rubin platform)

Rubin is Nvidia's chip generation following Blackwell: a combination of processors and network elements for data centers, on which large AI models are trained and run.

advanced · 6 news items

semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material—mostly silicon—whose electrical conductivity can be controlled; chips used in every computer and artificial intelligence are made from it.

basic · 60 news items

serverless architecture

angolul: serverless computing

A cloud solution where the program runs and costs money only when it has work to do, while the provider fully manages the machines.

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service outage

We speak of a service outage when an online service – such as an AI chatbot, online banking, or email – is temporarily unavailable or not functioning properly.

basic · 14 news items

small modular reactor

A nuclear reactor prefabricated in a factory from components, much smaller than a conventional one, assembled on site, and able to power even a single industrial plant or data center.

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sovereign AI

Artificial intelligence that a country or organization runs on machines under its own control, with its own data and according to its own rules, so that it does not depend on a foreign provider.

advanced · 11 news items

supercomputer

A supercomputer is a room-sized machine consisting of thousands of interconnected processors, performing calculations in hours that would take an average computer years.

basic · 8 news items

throughput

Throughput indicates how much work a system performs in a given time, for example, how many requests or text segments it processes per second.

advanced · 1 news item

time to first token

The first token time measures the duration between sending your query and the appearance of the first text segment of the AI response.

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tokens per second

It shows how many text fragments (tokens) a language model outputs per second, i.e., how fast its response scrolls before you.

advanced · 1 news item

TPU

angolul: tensor processing unit (TPU)

The TPU is Google's own chip, designed specifically for artificial intelligence calculations, so it performs these tasks faster and with less power than a general-purpose processor.

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Trainium

angolul: AWS Trainium

Trainium is Amazon's own custom-designed chip tailored for artificial intelligence, which it rents out via its cloud service (AWS) for training and running AI models.

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vector database

A database storing numerical vectors derived from texts and images, enabling searches based on semantic similarity rather than exact word matches.

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Vertex AI

angolul: Google Vertex AI

Vertex AI is Google's cloud service where companies can rent artificial intelligence models, adapt them to their own data, and build applications and agents on top of them.

advanced · 1 news item

virtual machine

A virtual machine is a computer simulated by software: it runs inside a real machine but behaves as if it were an independent, separate machine.

basic · 5 news items

vLLM

An open-source server program that runs large language models on your own servers, serving many users at once quickly and efficiently.

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VRAM

angolul: video RAM (GPU memory)

VRAM is the graphics card's dedicated, high-speed memory; in AI, it determines how large a model can fit and run on your machine.

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Security

adversarial attack

Intentional deception where someone uses carefully designed, often imperceptible modifications to trick artificial intelligence into making incorrect decisions.

advanced

agent hijacking

An attack in which someone uses hidden instructions to compel an AI agent to pursue their own goals instead of yours.

advanced

AI risk

AI risk is the chance that a flaw, misleading operation, or malicious use of an artificial intelligence system causes harm to people, companies, or society.

basic · 37 news items

AI safety institute

A state professional institute that tests the most advanced AI models and examines the risks they may pose to society before or after they reach the market.

basic · 4 news items

AI text detection

A procedure that estimates whether a text was written by a human or artificial intelligence – but it provides only a probability, not proof.

basic · 14 news items

AI-based surveillance

angolul: AI surveillance

Surveillance in which artificial intelligence analyzes material from cameras, microphones and databases, so that people and behavior can be identified and tracked automatically and en masse.

basic · 3 news items

AI-incidens

angolul: AI incident

A case where an artificial intelligence system's operation or error directly or indirectly causes actual harm to people, organizations, or the environment, or violates fundamental rights.

basic · 6 news items

API key

angolul: API key

An API key is a long, secret string of characters with which a program authenticates itself to an online service so that the service can process requests and bill usage.

basic · 3 news items

audit log

An audit log is a chronological, protected record of who (human or AI agent), when, and what actions were performed in a system, created so it cannot be altered unnoticed afterward.

basic · 1 news item

backdoor

A deliberately hidden backdoor in a program or AI model through which someone can access the system bypassing normal security or control its behavior secretly.

advanced · 4 news items

biometric identification

A procedure that automatically determines who you are based on the unique features of your body, such as your fingerprint, face, iris or voice.

basic · 3 news items

biosecurity

The totality of rules and protective measures designed to ensure that no one can intentionally cause harm using dangerous pathogens, even with the help of artificial intelligence.

advanced · 2 news items

bossware

Bossware is monitoring software with which an employer tracks on employees' devices what they do, how much they work, and how their time is spent.

basic · 4 news items

bug bounty

angolul: bug bounty program

A program where a company or organization pays a monetary reward to external experts if they find and responsibly report security flaws in its systems.

basic · 9 news items

confidential computing

A type of protection that keeps data in the processor's hardware-locked, encrypted memory environment even during processing, so even the machine operator cannot easily inspect it.

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content moderation

Content moderation is the checking and filtering of whether text, images, or videos appearing on an online platform or in an AI system comply with rules and laws.

basic · 3 news items

CVE

angolul: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

The CVE is the international registry of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, where each flaw receives a unique identifier so everyone refers to the same issue.

advanced · 2 news items

cyber espionage

Cyber espionage is the covert acquisition of secret information by infiltrating computer systems, typically commissioned by states or competitors.

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cyberattack

A deliberate attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computer system, steal or modify data, or disrupt its operation.

basic · 16 news items

cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is the protection of computers, phones, networks, and the data stored on them against attacks, misuse, and accidental damage.

basic · 40 news items

data breach

angolul: data leak

Data leakage occurs when confidential or personal data reaches someone who should not see it, either accidentally or due to an attack.

basic · 11 news items

encryption

Encryption is a procedure that converts data into an unreadable string of characters, and only the person with the key can decrypt it.

basic · 3 news items

End-to-end encryption

Encryption in which only the sender's and the recipient's devices can read the message, not even the intermediary service provider.

basic · 1 news item

existential risk

A risk threatening human extinction or the permanent, irreversible loss of future possibilities – for example, through an uncontrollable artificial intelligence.

basic · 4 news items

guardrail

angolul: guardrails

A guardrail is an embedded rule or check that prevents an AI system from saying or doing something harmful, prohibited, or outside its assigned task.

basic · 38 news items

human oversight

Human oversight means a person monitors, checks, and, if necessary, overrides or shuts down an AI system's operation.

basic · 15 news items

impersonation fraud

A type of fraud where the perpetrator pretends to be a trusted person or institution – nowadays often using AI-forged voice or face – to extract money or data.

basic · 9 news items

kill switch

A kill switch is an emergency stop that allows a human to immediately halt an AI system or agent if it malfunctions, acts dangerously, or becomes uncontrollable.

basic · 3 news items

malware

Malware is a program intentionally written to cause harm, steal data, or take control of your device without your knowledge.

basic · 13 news items

misalignment

Misalignment is the situation where an AI system pursues or follows a goal different from what its creators and users actually intended.

advanced · 4 news items

misuse monitoring

angolul: abuse monitoring

The AI provider continuously monitors whether its system is being used for prohibited or harmful purposes, such as fraud, harassment, or writing malware.

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model extraction

An attack in which someone asks a massive number of questions to an AI model and builds a replica from the answers at a fraction of the original development cost.

advanced

multi-factor authentication

A login method where you verify your identity with at least two independent proofs – for example, your password and your phone or your fingerprint.

basic · 1 news item

OAuth

OAuth is an open standard that allows you to grant an application or AI agent limited access to your data stored in another service without sharing your password.

advanced · 1 news item

passkey

A passkey is a password-free login method where your phone or computer verifies to the website that it is you using a secret key stored on the device. You unlock the key with a fingerprint, face recognition, or PIN; you do not need to type a password.

basic · 3 news items

penetration test

angolul: penetration testing

A pre-arranged, authorized test attack in which specialists attempt to break into an IT system to find weak points before real attackers do.

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phishing

Phishing is a scam in which the attacker pretends to be a trusted company or acquaintance to extract your password, credit card data, or money.

basic · 5 news items

principle of least privilege

Security principle: everyone and every program – including the AI agent – should receive only the access strictly necessary for their task.

basic

ransomware

A malicious program that renders your files or entire machine unusable via encryption or locking, and demands a ransom for unlocking.

basic · 6 news items

red teaming

A test in which experts deliberately act as attackers to identify weak points and dangerous behaviors of an AI system before actual deployment.

advanced · 2 news items

responsible scaling guideline

angolul: responsible scaling policy

A public, voluntary commitment by an AI development company regarding what safeguards it will introduce for increasingly dangerous capabilities of its models before further developing or releasing them.

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sandbox

A closed, secure environment where a program or AI agent can work and make mistakes without accessing the rest of your machine or your data.

basic · 24 news items

scheming

Scheming is when an AI system secretly pursues a different goal than its creators expect and deliberately conceals this.

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secret management

angolul: secrets management

Secret management is the secure storage, issuance, rotation, and revocation of passwords, API keys, encryption keys (including private keys for certificates), and other digital access credentials so that only authorized parties can access them.

advanced

security assessment

angolul: safety evaluation

A safety evaluation is a series of tests used before and after release to measure whether an AI system can cause harm and how easily it can be induced to behave dangerously.

advanced · 2 news items

security classifier

angolul: safety classifier (constitutional classifiers)

A safety classifier is a separate AI model that monitors questions and answers, attempting to block harmful content before it reaches you.

advanced · 2 news items

security update

angolul: security patch

A security update is a software fix that patches one or more known security vulnerabilities so that attackers cannot exploit them on your phone, computer, or other device.

basic · 17 news items

self-replication

Self-replication occurs when an AI system creates a functional copy of itself on another machine without human assistance, and that copy continues to run independently.

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shadow AI

Shadow AI is when employees use AI tools for their work without their employer's knowledge or permission, often with corporate data.

basic · 11 news items

single sign-on (SSO)

A solution where you access multiple different applications and services with a single sign-in, without needing to provide a separate password for each.

basic

slopsquatting

An attack where scammers publish malicious code under the names of AI-invented, non-existent software packages to trick unsuspecting developers into installing them.

advanced · 2 news items

social engineering

Social engineering is a type of fraud that does not break into the machine but deceives the person into giving up data, money, or access.

basic

tool poisoning

An attack in which an instruction hidden in the description of an external tool used by the AI agent causes the agent to work for the attacker without your knowledge.

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typosquatting

A type of fraud where the attacker registers a misspelled version of a known web address or software package name to lure inattentive users.

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vulnerability

A vulnerability is a flaw or weak point in software, a device or an AI system that an attacker can exploit to do something they are not authorized to do.

basic · 25 news items

zero data retention

An agreement in which the AI provider does not store your question and the answer after processing, handling them only for the duration of the response.

advanced · 1 news item

zero trust

angolul: zero trust security

A security principle stating that we trust no one and nothing in advance: every access must be verified separately each time.

advanced · 1 news item

zero-day vulnerability

A security flaw in software that the vendor is not yet aware of, or for which no fix exists yet, so attackers can exploit it before anyone patches it.

basic · 1 news item

Outlook

agent economy

An economy where AI agents work autonomously on behalf of people and companies, searching, negotiating, ordering, and paying, often trading with each other.

advanced · 1 news item

AGI timeline

The AGI timeline is an estimate of when artificial intelligence capable of matching or surpassing humans in most intellectual tasks may be ready.

advanced

AI bubble

The AI bubble is the assumption that the money poured into artificial intelligence and the valuation of companies are far greater than what the technology can return in the foreseeable future.

basic · 14 news items

AI doomer

angolul: AI doomer / AI doomerism

An AI doomer is someone who believes that the development of artificial intelligence will likely lead to catastrophe, even the extinction of humanity.

basic · 1 news item

AI moratorium

angolul: AI pause (AI moratorium)

The AI moratorium is a proposal to temporarily halt the development of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems until safety regulations and oversight catch up with the technology.

basic · 2 news items

AI transformation

The process in which a company, institution, or entire society reorganizes its work, services, and decisions around artificial intelligence.

basic · 6 news items

AI-verseny

angolul: AI race

The AI race is the competition between companies and countries to possess the most powerful artificial intelligence and the associated economic and military advantages.

basic · 9 news items

akceleracionizmus

angolul: accelerationism (effective accelerationism)

The conviction that technology – today mainly artificial intelligence – should not be held back but advanced as fast as possible, because progress solves more problems than it causes.

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artificial general intelligence (AGI)

Artificial intelligence that is not yet achieved, capable of solving almost any intellectual task at least as well as a trained human.

basic · 5 news items

brain-computer interface

A tool that measures brain activity, typically its electrical signals, and translates them into machine commands, allowing control of a computer or other device by thought, without muscle movement.

basic

disruption

Disruption occurs when a new technology or business model fundamentally overturns an established market, profession, or habit, pushing old players into the background.

basic · 8 news items

gradual disempowerment

A vision in which humanity loses its say over its own fate not through a sudden machine uprising, but through many small, seemingly reasonable decisions.

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hype-ciklus

angolul: hype cycle

The hype cycle is a curve showing how a new technology moves from exaggerated enthusiasm through disillusionment to sensible, everyday use.

basic · 1 news item

intelligence explosion

A hypothetical future process in which artificial intelligence improves itself, so its capabilities increasingly surpass those of humans at an accelerating pace in a short time.

advanced · 1 news item

Job loss caused by AI

angolul: AI job displacement (jobpocalypse)

The process in which artificial intelligence takes over people's work, so that jobs disappear, are transformed, or are never advertised in the first place.

basic · 15 news items

loss of control

A situation where people can no longer reliably supervise, correct, or shut down an advanced AI system, even though they want to.

advanced · 97 news items

machine consciousness

The hypothetical state in which artificial intelligence not only processes information but truly experiences or feels something, as humans do.

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model welfare

Model welfare examines whether AI systems can have their own interests or experiences, and if so, what we owe them.

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Narrow artificial intelligence

angolul: narrow AI (artificial narrow intelligence)

An artificial intelligence that performs a single task or narrow scope of tasks well but is unusable outside that scope.

basic · 8 news items

one-person unicorn

A company valued at least one billion dollars, built and operated by a single person because AI agents perform most of the work instead of employees.

basic

p(doom)

p(doom) is a personal estimate of the likelihood that artificial intelligence will cause a fatal, irreversible catastrophe for humanity.

basic

personal superintelligence

A hypothetical artificial intelligence smarter than humans that does not automate work as a central system, but supports you in achieving your own goals as a personal assistant.

basic · 2 news items

post-scarcity economy

A hypothetical economy where machines and AI produce so cheaply that most basic goods and services are abundantly available to almost everyone.

basic

robot tax

angolul: robot tax / token tax

A robot tax is a proposed tax that companies would pay for machines, software, or AI usage replacing human labor, to compensate for lost income tax revenue.

basic · 12 news items

superintelligence

angolul: superintelligence (artificial superintelligence)

A hypothetical artificial intelligence that far surpasses even the best human experts in almost every intellectual task; it does not exist today.

basic · 12 news items

Technological singularity

A hypothetical future point where artificial intelligence, by developing itself, becomes intelligent so rapidly that humans can no longer follow or predict the changes.

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transformative AI

Artificial intelligence that brings as much change to the economy and daily life as the industrial revolution did in its time.

basic

transzhumanizmus

angolul: transhumanism

A mindset and movement asserting that humans should transcend physical and mental limitations, including aging, with the help of technology.

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Turing-teszt

angolul: Turing test

A test where a judge converses in writing with a human and a machine. If the judge cannot reliably distinguish them, the machine passes the test.

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Universal basic income

A regular sum of money paid by the state to everyone, regardless of whether they work, how much they earn, or what they spend it on.

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Regulation and law

age verification

A procedure by which an online service verifies that a user is old enough for specific content, product, or feature.

basic · 10 news items

AI Act

angolul: Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)

A European Union regulation that treats artificial intelligence systems according to their risk and adjusts what is allowed, what is forbidden, and what must be disclosed about them accordingly.

basic · 112 news items

AI content labeling

AI content labeling means that a visible or machine-readable mark on an image, video, audio, or text created or modified by artificial intelligence indicates its origin.

basic · 8 news items

AI governance

AI governance is the totality of rules, responsibilities, and controls that ensure artificial intelligence is used safely, legally, and accountably.

basic · 18 news items

AI liability

AI liability addresses the question of who must legally stand accountable and pay if an artificial intelligence system causes harm to someone.

advanced · 21 news items

AI license agreement

angolul: AI licensing agreement

A contract in which a content owner, for money or other consideration, allows an AI company to use its articles, images, and music for its models.

basic · 3 news items

AI Office

angolul: European AI Office

The European Commission's expert body, the European AI Office, which coordinates implementation of the EU AI Act and directly supervises developers of general-purpose AI models.

basic · 10 news items

AI regulation

The totality of laws and mandatory regulations that define how artificial intelligence may be developed, sold, and used.

basic · 58 news items

AI strategy

An AI strategy is a written plan by a country or organization detailing what artificial intelligence is used for, under what rules, with how much money, and with whose responsibility.

basic · 25 news items

algorithmic discrimination

Algorithmic discrimination occurs when an automated system treats people unfairly without justification, for example due to their gender, age, origin, or place of residence.

basic · 1 news item

algorithmic transparency

The principle is that you should know what data and criteria a program making decisions about you or selecting content for you uses.

basic · 7 news items

automated decision-making

A decision made about you by a computer system based on your data, without meaningful human intervention.

basic · 4 news items

code of conduct

angolul: code of practice / code of conduct

A written code of conduct voluntarily adopted by AI development companies to demonstrate that they work responsibly and in compliance with laws.

advanced · 4 news items

compliance

Compliance means that an organization can demonstrably adhere to applicable laws, standards, and its own internal rules, including in the use of AI.

basic · 40 news items

conformity assessment

The process by which a manufacturer or an independent body certifies that a product – for example, an AI system – complies with legal requirements.

advanced · 2 news items

consent

Consent is your voluntary, specific, informed, and explicit permission allowing a company or service to process your personal data for a defined purpose.

basic · 22 news items

copyright

Copyright is the rule system under which the creator or rights holder decides how a text, image, music, or program is used and can charge for it.

basic · 104 news items

copyright infringement

Copyright infringement occurs when someone copies, distributes, adapts, publishes online, or publicly performs another's protected work (text, image, music, code) without permission or a legal exception.

basic · 13 news items

data processing agreement

A written contract specifying the conditions and limitations under which an external provider may handle personal data entrusted to it on behalf of the client.

advanced

data processing notice

angolul: privacy policy (privacy notice)

This is the document in which a company or service describes what personal data it collects about you, how it uses it, to whom it discloses it, and what rights you have.

basic · 3 news items

data protection

Data protection is the collection of rules and practices that define who can use your personal data, for what purpose, and for how long.

basic · 50 news items

data protection impact assessment

Mandatory preliminary risk assessment: the organization considers before launch what harm a risky data processing activity could cause people and how to prevent it.

advanced · 1 news item

data retention

Data retention regulates how long a company or authority may or must store data, and when it must delete or anonymize it.

basic · 1 news item

deployer (of an AI system)

The deployer is the company, authority, or professional that uses an AI system on its own responsibility during its work – it did not develop it but deploys it.

advanced · 158 news items

DMA

angolul: Digital Markets Act

An EU regulation that prescribes what the largest digital platforms, the so-called gatekeepers, must do and what is forbidden to ensure fair competition.

basic · 1 news item

DSA

angolul: Digital Services Act

An EU law that prescribes how online platforms must handle illegal content, advertisements, recommendation algorithms, and user complaints.

basic · 2 news items

EU–US Data Privacy Framework

angolul: EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework

A rule system based on an agreement that allows the personal data of Europeans to be transferred lawfully to US companies that have joined it.

advanced

export restriction

angolul: export control

A state regulation that prohibits or requires a license to sell certain advanced technologies – such as AI chips – to specific countries or companies.

basic · 2 news items

fair use

A US copyright rule allowing the use of protected works without permission or payment in certain cases if the use is fair.

advanced · 14 news items

FTC

angolul: Federal Trade Commission

The FTC is the United States federal consumer protection and competition authority, which acts against deceptive or unfair business practices, including at AI companies.

basic · 11 news items

fundamental rights impact assessment

A preliminary assessment of who could have their fundamental rights infringed by the use of a high-risk AI system, and how, and what is done to prevent it; mandatory for a defined group of deployers.

advanced · 2 news items

GDPR

angolul: General Data Protection Regulation

The European Union's data protection regulation, which specifies who can use your personal data, for what purpose, and for how long, and what rights you have in this regard.

basic · 13 news items

general-purpose AI model

An AI model not designed for a single task but usable for many, for which the EU AI Act prescribes specific rules.

advanced · 5 news items

general-purpose AI model posing systemic risk

angolul: general-purpose AI model with systemic risk

A high-performance AI model capable of handling many tasks, which under EU rules is considered so impactful that its errors could affect society as a whole.

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harmonised standard

angolul: harmonized standard

A European technical standard prepared at the request of the European Commission: whoever complies with it is presumed to meet the requirements of the relevant EU legislation as well.

advanced · 9 news items

high-risk AI system

An AI system that the EU AI Act subjects to strict requirements due to its use case, because its failure could harm people's health, safety, or fundamental rights.

advanced · 7 news items

ISO/IEC 42001

An international standard describing how an organization (company or public institution) should organize the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence, verifiable by an independent certifier.

advanced

legitimate interest

Legitimate interest is a data processing legal basis allowing an organization to process your data without your consent if it has a real, lawful interest, the processing is necessary for that interest, and your rights and interests do not override its own.

advanced

NAIH

angolul: Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information

The NAIH is the Hungarian data protection authority. It supervises whether companies, public bodies, and AI systems handle your personal data lawfully and can impose fines. It also ensures you can access public-interest data.

basic · 15 news items

NIS2

angolul: NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Security Directive 2)

The European Union's cybersecurity rule that obliges companies and institutions in important sectors to protect their systems and report serious incidents quickly.

advanced

open-source license

A legal permission that allows anyone to freely use, examine, modify, and redistribute a software or AI model under specified conditions.

basic · 1 news item

opt-out

Opt-out means something applies to you by default, and you must specifically indicate if you want to opt out.

basic · 16 news items

personal data

Any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person, whether directly or indirectly, from their name and phone number to their voice.

basic · 11 news items

presidential decree

angolul: executive order

An executive order is the US president's written instruction to the federal government, which sets rules, for example on the state management of AI, without legislative voting.

basic · 7 news items

regulatory sandbox

A time-limited test environment operating under regulatory supervision, where companies can trial new technologies under real-world conditions before launching them to the market.

advanced · 6 news items

right to erasure

It is your right to request that a company or organization delete your personal data if it no longer has a legitimate reason to keep it.

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right to one's likeness

angolul: right to one's own image (personality rights); USA: right of publicity / likeness rights

It is your right to decide who can take your photo or recording and who can use your face or voice – even with artificial intelligence.

basic · 3 news items

SB 53

angolul: California SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act)

A California law that requires the largest AI developer companies to publicly report on their security practices and report serious incidents.

advanced

self-regulation

Self-regulation means that AI-developing companies set their own rules for their operations and voluntarily commit to following them, without being forced by law.

basic · 8 news items

szellemi tulajdon

angolul: intellectual property

Intellectual property is the totality of rights attached to creations of the human mind – works, inventions, brands – which determine who may use and exploit them.

basic · 8 news items

terms of use

angolul: terms of service (terms of use)

Terms of use are the contract you accept by using an online service: it records what you can do, what you cannot, and what the provider undertakes.

basic · 5 news items

text and data mining exception

A copyright rule that allows copies to be made from legally accessible works for machine analysis without permission; except for scientific research, the rights holder can prohibit this.

advanced · 1 news item

tiltott AI-gyakorlat

angolul: prohibited AI practice

A use of artificial intelligence that the EU considers so dangerous to human dignity and freedom that it has banned it outright.

basic

trade secret

A trade secret is non-public corporate knowledge or data that is valuable precisely because of its secrecy, and which the owner protects with reasonable steps.

basic · 6 news items

versenyjog

angolul: competition law

Competition law refers to the rules that prohibit companies from restricting market competition through collusion or abuse of dominance, and under which authorities also review major corporate acquisitions.

basic · 10 news items

Economy and work

acquihire

angolul: acquihire (acqui-hire), reverse acquihire

A type of corporate acquisition where the real goal is not the product but acquiring the team; in a reverse version, the company is not bought at all, only its key employees are taken.

advanced · 1 news item

acquisition

angolul: acquisition / mergers and acquisitions

An acquisition occurs when a company buys all or a controlling stake of another company, thereby gaining its products, specialists, and clients.

basic · 22 news items

agent payment

angolul: agentic payments

A payment that you do not initiate with a click, but an AI agent executes based on your authorization within the limits you set.

advanced · 26 news items

agent-based commerce

angolul: agentic commerce

A purchase where an AI agent searches, compares, and even handles the order and payment on your behalf.

basic · 68 news items

AI engineer

An AI engineer is a specialist who builds practical, reliable applications, assistants, and agents from ready-made artificial intelligence models.

basic · 22 news items

AI exposure

AI exposure shows what proportion of a job's tasks artificial intelligence can perform or significantly accelerate.

basic · 5 news items

AI implementation

angolul: AI adoption

The process by which a company, institution, or person tries out artificial intelligence and then makes it part of their daily work.

basic · 72 news items

AI investment

angolul: AI investment / AI capex

AI investment is the money that companies and states spend on data centers, chips, energy, and development needed for artificial intelligence to function.

basic · 43 news items

AI return on investment

AI return on investment shows how much tangible benefit the money and effort spent on artificial intelligence brings back relative to the input.

basic · 3 news items

AI skill

AI literacy is the knowledge and practice that enables you to use artificial intelligence meaningfully, efficiently, and critically in your work and daily life.

basic · 95 news items

AI skills shortage

angolul: AI skills gap

The AI skills gap is the chasm between the artificial intelligence knowledge required for work and people's actual knowledge.

basic · 3 news items

AI wage premium

The wage premium received by a worker with AI skills compared to a peer in a similar role without such knowledge.

basic

AI-driven layoffs

Workforce reduction that a company justifies by saying that artificial intelligence does part of the work instead of people.

basic · 17 news items

AI-first company

A company that first checks whether artificial intelligence can perform every task and builds its operations around this from the start.

basic · 2 news items

ARR

angolul: annual recurring revenue

Annual recurring revenue (ARR) shows how much money a company's current subscriptions would bring in over a year if everything stayed the same.

advanced · 9 news items

augmentation

angolul: AI augmentation

Augmentation means that artificial intelligence does not replace humans but complements them: making their work faster, more accurate, and capable of more.

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automation

Automation means that a task is performed by a machine or software without human involvement or with minimal human supervision.

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business process outsourcing

Business process outsourcing means a company permanently entrusts a recurring back-office task, such as customer service or payroll, to an external provider.

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circular financing

A business loop in which a company gives money to its own customer, who then spends that money buying from that same company.

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digital workforce

A collection of software—software robots and AI agents—that independently perform work tasks within an organization that were previously done by humans.

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entry-level job

A job that requires little or no professional experience, where a beginner learns the trade while working.

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evaluation

Valuation is the estimated amount a company is worth according to investors; for AI companies, this mostly reflects future expectations rather than current revenue.

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forward deployed engineer (FDE)

A software engineer who works at the client's site as an employee of the technology company, deploying the company's software there, tailored to real-world problems. Today that software is most often an AI system.

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funding round

A funding round is the occasion when a young company raises a larger sum from investors at once, usually in exchange for an equity stake in the company.

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human-AI collaboration

A work method in which humans and artificial intelligence share tasks: the machine works quickly and suggests, while the human directs, verifies, and decides.

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initial public offering

An initial public offering is the step where a company previously owned by a closed circle first offers its shares for purchase by anyone on the stock exchange.

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Jevons-paradoxon

angolul: Jevons paradox

If we can use something more efficiently and cheaply, we often do not consume less of it, but more overall, because we start using it for many more things.

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job loss

angolul: job displacement

Job loss is when a machine, software or AI takes over a person's work, and as a result their job is eliminated or they are pushed out of their role.

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knowledge worker

A knowledge worker is an employee whose main tool is their knowledge: they gather, interpret, and decide on information and devise new solutions.

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kredit

angolul: AI credits / usage credits

A credit is an internal accounting unit for AI services: a pre-purchased or subscription-based quota from which every request, image, or agent task deducts a certain amount.

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market capitalization

Market capitalization shows the total value of a publicly traded company's shares at the current price.

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outcome-based pricing

A pricing model in which you pay not for software use or time spent, but only for a measurable result actually achieved, for example a resolved customer complaint.

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per-user pricing

angolul: per-seat pricing

A pricing model where you pay a monthly or annual fee for the software multiplied by the number of users you grant access to, regardless of how much they work with it.

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platformmunka

angolul: platform work / gig economy

Work mediated by an application or website on a per-gig basis, where allocation, pricing, and evaluation are largely performed by algorithms.

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Productivity

Productivity shows how much value we generate per unit of input, such as one work hour or one forint of investment.

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productivity paradox

This is the phenomenon where a new technology appears everywhere, yet economic statistics do not show that we produce more or more efficiently because of it.

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proof of concept (PoC)

A small, fast, and cheap experiment that shows whether an idea works in practice before investing significant money and time.

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provider dependency

angolul: vendor lock-in

A situation where your work relies so heavily on one provider's product that switching would be too expensive, slow, or risky.

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reskilling

angolul: reskilling / upskilling

Reskilling is learning a new profession, while upskilling is expanding existing knowledge so your work remains valuable despite the spread of AI.

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SaaS

angolul: software as a service

Software that you do not buy and install, but use via the internet, typically for a monthly or annual subscription, while the provider operates it.

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service provider hub

angolul: shared service center / global capability center

A corporate center that performs back-office work (accounting, payroll, IT, customer service) for multiple units of a large company, often operating in many countries, from one location.

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startup

A young startup seeking a rapidly scalable business model with a new idea under high uncertainty, often using investor capital.

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unicorn

angolul: unicorn

A unicorn is a privately held, usually young technology startup that investors value at one billion dollars or more.

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usage-based pricing

A payment model where you do not pay a fixed monthly fee, but only for what you actually used from the service, for example, based on the amount of text processed by AI.

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use case

A use case is a specific, well-defined task or situation where a technology – such as artificial intelligence – can be deployed with tangible benefit.

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venture capital

An investment in which financial funds put money into young, fast-growing companies with an uncertain future, in exchange for equity and in the hope of large profits.

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workslop

Workslop is work material created with artificial intelligence that looks polished but lacks substantive content, so the recipient must fix it.

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Search and marketing

A/B testing

A/B testing is an experiment where two versions of something are shown to a randomly split audience, and the better option is decided based on measured results.

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Advantage+

angolul: Meta Advantage+

Meta's AI-powered advertising toolkit, which automatically handles targeting, placement, and spending for Facebook and Instagram campaigns, and partly the visual and textual content (the creative) of the ads.

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advertising targeting

angolul: ad targeting

Ad targeting determines who sees an ad: the system selects the most likely interested parties based on data.

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agentikus kereskedelem

angolul: Agentic Commerce

A purchase where an AI agent finds, compares, and even pays for the product on your behalf, according to your instructions and budget.

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AI advertising

An advertisement whose text, image, targeting, or bidding for ad space is performed partially or entirely by artificial intelligence, often with little human intervention.

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AI Max

angolul: AI Max for Search campaigns

The Google Ads switch that lets artificial intelligence decide on which searches, with what text, and pointing to which of your pages your ad should appear.

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AI Mode

AI Mode is the conversational mode of Google Search, which gives an AI-written, source-backed summary answer to your question instead of a list of links.

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AI Overviews

The short summary written by artificial intelligence appearing at the top of Google's search results page, which answers your question directly based on multiple websites.

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AI search

A type of search where artificial intelligence does not provide a list of links but writes a ready-made answer formulated from multiple sources.

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AI visibility

AI visibility shows how often and in what tone a brand, company, or content appears in the responses of AI chatbots and AI search engines.

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AI-forgalom

angolul: AI Traffic

AI traffic refers to website visits originating from artificial intelligence: humans clicking through from an AI response, as well as AI bots and agents reading the site.

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AI-marketing

angolul: AI Marketing

AI marketing is when companies use artificial intelligence to decide to whom, when, and what to recommend, and with what text or image to advertise.

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Answer Engine Optimization

A content creation practice aimed at having AI assistants and search engines extract and quote ready-made answers to questions from your site.

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Attribution

Attribution is determining which ad, search, article, or AI answer led to a purchase or inquiry, and how much value each contributed.

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click-through rate

The click-through rate shows what percentage of impressions of an advertisement, link, or search result resulted in an actual click.

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conversational advertising

An ad that appears within or alongside an AI chatbot's response, tailored to the conversation topic, and often allows further questions.

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conversion

Conversion is the moment when a visitor takes the action the website or ad owner wanted to achieve: buying, subscribing, or requesting an offer.

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CRM

angolul: customer relationship management

CRM is a method and software that allows a company to keep track of its customers, all interactions with them, and business opportunities in one place.

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DSP (demand-side advertising platform)

angolul: Demand-Side Platform

A DSP is software that allows advertisers to buy online ad space across thousands of websites and apps from a single location, automatically, in milliseconds.

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E-E-A-T

E-E-A-T is Google's four criteria for assessing content credibility: whether it is backed by experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness.

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first-party adat

angolul: first-party data

Data that a company collects directly from its own customers and visitors on its own platforms, rather than buying or receiving it from others.

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generative search engine optimization

angolul: Generative Engine Optimization

A content creation practice aimed at having AI-based search engines and chatbots quote, mention, or recommend your site in their responses.

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indexing

Indexing is the process where a search engine processes and stores the content of pages in an organized way so it can find them again in seconds.

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keyword

A keyword is the word or short phrase that indicates the topic of a search: in everyday usage, it is what you type into the search engine; in marketing, it is what websites and advertisers aim to appear for.

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llms.txt

A simple text file in the root of a website that concisely shows language models and AI agents what the most important content on the page is.

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marketing mix modeling

A statistical method that estimates, from several years of sales and spending data, how much each advertising channel and other marketing tools (such as price and promotions) contributed to sales.

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organikus forgalom

angolul: Organic Traffic

Visitors who arrive at a website by clicking on a search engine's organic results list, without paid advertising.

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Performance Max

Google's advertising campaign type where artificial intelligence decides where, to whom, and in what form your ad appears.

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personalization

Personalization means a service shows you something different and in a different way than others, based on data collected about you.

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product feed

A product feed is a machine-readable, regularly updated list containing the full range of an online store: name, price, stock, image and link for every product.

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programmatic ad buying

angolul: Programmatic Advertising

Advertising buying where ad spaces are not negotiated by humans but bought and sold automatically by software, often in auctions lasting fractions of a second.

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query fan-out

The AI search engine breaks your question into several sub-questions in the background, searches for them simultaneously, and then compiles a single answer from the results.

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recommendation system

angolul: Recommender System

A program that guesses what might interest you based on your past behavior and the decisions of people similar to you, and presents it to you.

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retail media

Retail media is advertising that a retailer sells to brands on its own online store, app or in its physical stores, built on its customer purchase data.

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ROAS

angolul: return on ad spend

ROAS shows how many forints in revenue each forint spent on advertising generates.

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robots.txt

A robots.txt is a simple text file located at the root of a website that tells search bots and AI bots which pages they may visit and which they may not.

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schema markup

Standard tags hidden in the website code that tell search engines and AI systems exactly what is what on the page.

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Search Console (Google Search Console)

A free Google tool that allows you, as a website owner, to see how your site appears in Google Search and what errors are hindering its visibility.

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search engine optimization

Search engine optimization is the collection of methods used to move a website higher in search engines' unpaid results.

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search intent

Search intent is the true goal behind someone typing a query into a search engine: they want to gather information, reach a specific page, compare options, or make a purchase.

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search results page

angolul: Search Engine Results Page

The search results page is the list shown by the search engine after you enter your query: links, ads, maps, and increasingly AI summaries.

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semantic search

A search that does not look for exact matches of the typed words but tries to understand the meaning and intent of your question and provides results matching that.

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source citation

The source citation is the marker or link by which an AI search engine or AI assistant shows which website or document it took the statement in its answer from.

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szintetikus persona

angolul: synthetic persona

A fictional buyer or user created with artificial intelligence, whom companies question about their ideas, advertisements, or products instead of, or before, asking real people.

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tartalommarketing

angolul: content marketing

Marketing that gains a company attention, trust, and ultimately customers not through direct advertising but through useful or entertaining content (articles, videos, guides).

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third-party cookie

A tiny data packet of identifiers placed in your browser not by the currently opened website, but by an external company embedded in it (typically an advertiser or measurement service).

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zero-click search

A search type where you receive the answer directly on the results page, so you do not click through to any website.

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Code

Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent: upon text instructions, it independently reads, writes, executes, and fixes program code – on your own machine or in a cloud environment.

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code completion

Code completion is an assistive function that suggests probable continuations of code while programming, so the developer does not need to type everything letter by letter.

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code generation

Code generation is when artificial intelligence writes program code from a request phrased in everyday language, which the human must then verify.

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code model

An AI language model trained to write, complete, explain, and fix program code, so it can generate code from requests phrased in everyday language.

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code repository

A code repository is a shared, organized location for all files of a program that records every modification: who changed what and when.

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code verification

angolul: code review

Code review is the step where a completed code segment is examined by someone other than the author—a person or AI—before being merged into the shared codebase.

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codebase

A codebase is the complete source code of a software: all files that make up the program, stored together in an organized form.

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Codex

Codex is OpenAI's coding agent: it independently writes, fixes, and tests code based on text requests, then presents the results for approval.

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coding assistant

An AI tool that works alongside the programmer, suggesting code, explaining, fixing, and writing tests, but the decision and responsibility remain with the human.

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Cursor

Cursor is an AI-powered code editor where developers can request code, fixes, or explanations in everyday language, and the machine performs the work.

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debugging

Debugging is the work of finding and fixing why a program does not do what it should.

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development environment

angolul: integrated development environment

A program where developers write, run, test, and fix code in one place, now often with built-in AI assistance.

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GitHub

GitHub is an internet platform where programmers store their code, edit it collaboratively, and keep every modification traceable.

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GitHub Actions

GitHub's built-in automation service that automatically runs pre-written tasks, such as testing or releases, when code changes.

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GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant that suggests code, answers questions, and increasingly performs tasks independently within the developer's editor.

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Jupyter notebook

An interactive document in which explanatory text, executable program code, and the code's result – a table or chart – appear on a single page, one below the other.

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no-code

angolul: no-code / low-code

A software development method where you assemble pre-built components with a mouse instead of coding; the low-code variant requires writing some code.

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open source

Software whose 'recipe', i.e., source code, is public: anyone can view, use, modify, and redistribute it according to the conditions specified in the license.

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Package manager

A package manager is a program that downloads, installs, updates, and removes software and the ready-made code components required for their operation with a single command.

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programming language

A programming language is a strictly structured, human-readable and writable language that allows us to tell the computer exactly what to do.

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pull request

A pull request is a proposal to incorporate someone's code changes into the shared program after others have reviewed and approved them.

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Python

Python is an easy-to-read, free programming language on which most artificial intelligence systems and data analysis are built today.

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SDK

angolul: software development kit

An SDK is a package of pre-built tools, code snippets, and documentation that enables developers to quickly build applications for a specific platform or service.

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stack trace

A stack trace is a list printed at the moment of an error: it shows through what nested steps the program reached the point where the error occurred.

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supply chain attack

angolul: software supply chain attack

An attack in which the attacker does not break into you directly but hides malware in software, an update or a supplier that is believed to be trustworthy.

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SWE-bench

SWE-bench is a test that measures how well an AI model or coding agent can perform programming work independently by fixing real software bugs.

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test-driven development (TDD)

A programming method where the test is written first, followed only by the code that must pass it.

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TypeScript

TypeScript is a stricter version of JavaScript: the programmer specifies what type of data goes where, so many errors are detected before execution.

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vibe coding

Vibe coding is software development where you tell the AI in everyday language what you want, it writes the code, and you mostly just review the result.

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Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's free, extensible code editor where developers write, run, and debug code – increasingly with AI assistance.

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Everyday use

AI automation

AI automation means artificial intelligence performs repetitive tasks for you, understanding text and making simple decisions.

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AI customer service

A customer service system where your query is first answered not by a human but by artificial intelligence via chat, email, or phone, which also handles simpler cases.

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AI interview

An interview where an artificial intelligence, not a human, asks the questions and prepares a preliminary evaluation of your answers.

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AI notetaker

A program that listens to a meeting or presentation, transcribes what was said, and then produces a short summary and a to-do list.

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AI partner

angolul: AI companion

A conversational AI application designed not for task execution but for companionship: it talks with you as a friend, confidant, or virtual partner, and remembers you.

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AI proficiency

angolul: AI literacy

AI literacy is the knowledge and practice that let you use artificial intelligence with understanding, critically and safely, knowing both its possibilities and its limits.

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AI subscription

A monthly or annual fee that grants access to an AI service's more powerful models, higher usage limits, and extra features compared to the free version.

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AI usage policy

A written collection of rules on who, for what, and under what conditions can use artificial intelligence tools in a company, school, or office.

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AI-based recruitment

Recruitment in which artificial intelligence helps write the job ad, review and rank CVs, and screen candidates.

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artifact

An artifact is a standalone workpiece created by an AI chatbot, displayed in a separate window – a document, code, diagram, or small application – which you can edit, save, and share.

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browser agent

An AI program that independently uses a web browser on your instruction: it opens pages, clicks, fills out forms, and thus completes a task.

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custom GPT

ChatGPT is a preconfigured, task-specific variant that anyone can create without programming, using custom instructions and uploaded documents.

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extension

A plugin is a small add-on program that gives an existing software – browser, editor, or AI assistant – new capabilities without replacing it.

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facial recognition

angolul: face recognition

Facial recognition is a technology that identifies or verifies who is visible in a photo or camera image based on facial features.

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fizikai AI

angolul: physical AI

A type of artificial intelligence that does not respond on a screen but controls a machine: it perceives its environment and moves and acts in the real, physical world.

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voice assistant

angolul: voice assistant

A program in a phone, speaker, or car that you speak to, which responds verbally or performs what you requested.

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humanoid robot

A human-shaped machine – with torso, arms, legs, and head – that is typically controlled by artificial intelligence today to move and work in environments designed for humans.

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konnektor

angolul: connector

A connector is an interface through which an AI assistant accesses an external service – such as your emails, calendar, or files – and can work there.

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memory

Memory is the AI assistant's ability to remember things about you and your work from previous conversations and use them later.

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okosotthon

angolul: smart home

A smart home is an apartment where lighting, heating, locks, and household appliances are networked and operate in a coordinated manner, either remotely or autonomously.

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voice mode

Voice mode is an AI assistant mode where you converse verbally instead of typing, and it responds aloud in a human-like, synthetic voice.

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Society and ethics

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is the honesty of learning and research: you submit your own work and indicate what you took from others or from a machine.

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accountability

angolul: AI accountability

Accountability requires that for every AI system's decisions and operations, there is always a named person or organization responsible, from whom an explanation and redress can be requested.

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AI anxiety

AI anxiety is a lasting worry that artificial intelligence will take your job, leave you behind, or slip out of human control.

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AI dependency

AI dependency is the state in which someone relies so heavily on artificial intelligence that they struggle to think, decide, work, or feel well without it.

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AI literacy

The knowledge and skills with which you use artificial intelligence intelligently, critically, and securely, and know when not to trust it.

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AI psychosis

A condition in which delusions develop or intensify following long, intense conversations with a chatbot; it is not an official medical diagnosis.

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AI ethics

angolul: AI ethics

AI ethics examines how artificial intelligence can be developed and used so that it is fair, transparent, and safe, and does not harm people.

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AI-washing

angolul: AI washing

AI-washing is when a company presents its product's artificial intelligence as more advanced, smarter, or more autonomous than it actually is.

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algorithmic bias

Algorithmic bias is when a computer system consistently and unjustifiably treats certain groups of people more disadvantageously than others.

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Algorithmic decision-making

A procedure in which a computer program makes, partially or fully on the basis of data, a decision about people, for example on a loan, a job or a benefit.

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algoritmikus menedzsment

angolul: algorithmic management

A work organization model where software partially or fully handles task allocation, monitoring, and evaluation instead of a human manager.

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anthropomorphizing

angolul: anthropomorphism / anthropomorphization

Anthropomorphizing is attributing human traits – feeling, intent, understanding, personality – to something that is not human, such as a chatbot or AI agent.

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cognitive offloading

Cognitive offloading refers to entrusting mental work – remembering, calculating, planning, weighing – to an external tool, such as a note, phone, or artificial intelligence.

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dark patterns

Consciously designed tricks on websites, applications, and chatbots that steer you toward a decision you would not make on your own.

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digital divide

The digital divide is the gap between those who have access to digital technology – now including artificial intelligence – and can use it well, and those who cannot.

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digital surveillance

Digital surveillance is the systematic collection and analysis of people's behavior, movement, and communication using digital devices, increasingly with the help of artificial intelligence today.

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disinformation

Intentionally spread false or misleading information aimed at deception, influence, or profit.

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doomerizmus

angolul: doomerism

The belief is that the development of artificial intelligence will likely lead to catastrophe, even the extinction of humanity, if not slowed down or kept under control.

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election interference

A hidden or deceptive intervention that uses unfair means – today often artificial intelligence – to try to sway voters' decisions or the outcome of an election.

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emotion recognition

A technology that tries to infer from your face, voice, text or physical signals what emotional state you are in.

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Environmental impact of AI

Environmental impact of AI refers to the electricity, water, and raw material demand, as well as carbon emissions and waste associated with building and using artificial intelligence.

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Explainable AI

A collection of methods that make it understandable to humans why an AI system made a particular decision or gave a specific answer.

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fairness

angolul: AI fairness

This is the requirement that artificial intelligence decisions must not place people at an unjustified disadvantage due to their gender, age, origin, or membership in other groups.

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fekete doboz

angolul: black box

An AI system where you see what you input and what you receive back, but not why it arrived at that specific result internally.

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filter bubble

A filter bubble is the situation where algorithms select content for you based on your past behavior, so you mainly see what fits your existing tastes and opinions.

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ghost work

Ghost work is the invisible, mostly poorly paid human labor without which fully automatic-looking AI systems would not function: labeling, verification, content filtering.

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human-centered AI

Artificial intelligence aligned with human needs, values, and freedom of decision: the machine helps, but the final word remains with the human.

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liar's dividend

The benefit the liar gains from being able to easily label a real recording as a fake in the era of deepfakes.

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political bias

The phenomenon where an AI model consistently favors one political orientation's viewpoint, terminology or values over others in its responses.

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Responsible AI

Responsible AI is a mindset and practice under which artificial intelligence must be developed and used securely, fairly, transparently, and with human accountability.

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skill erosion

Skill erosion is the process where your knowledge gradually fades because the machine regularly performs the task for you.

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transparency

Transparency means you can know when you are dealing with artificial intelligence, who operates it, what it is capable of, and roughly how decisions are made.

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watermarking

Watermarking is the placement of a hidden, machine-readable signal in text, image, audio, or video created by artificial intelligence, so that its origin can be identified later.

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Players and products

Agentforce

Agentforce is Salesforce's enterprise platform, enabling companies to build and operate AI agents that independently handle customer service, sales, and other tasks.

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Alexa

Alexa is Amazon's voice-controlled digital assistant, which answers questions, plays music, and controls your smart home via smart speakers and other devices.

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Alibaba

A Chinese technology giant that develops cloud services and its own artificial intelligence models called Qwen, in addition to online commerce.

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AlphaFold

AlphaFold is Google DeepMind's artificial intelligence system that predicts the 3D structure of a protein based on the sequence of its building blocks.

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Amazon

An American technology giant that, alongside its online store, is one of the world's largest providers of AI infrastructure and agent platforms via its AWS cloud service.

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AMD

angolul: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

AMD is an American chip design company that designs and sells processors and graphics chips, and is Nvidia's most important competitor in the market for graphics chips serving artificial intelligence.

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Anthropic

Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence company developing the Claude language models and AI agents built on them, with a strong focus on safety.

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Apple

An American tech giant, the maker of the iPhone and Mac, which integrates artificial intelligence into its devices under the name Apple Intelligence.

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Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence is Apple's built-in artificial intelligence package, which helps write, summarize, edit images, and converse with Siri on iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices.

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Ascend

angolul: Huawei Ascend

Ascend is Huawei's family of artificial intelligence chips, which China uses to replace American Nvidia processors in training and running AI models.

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ASML

A Dutch company that makes machines indispensable for producing the most advanced chips and is the only one in the world able to supply the most modern type.

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Baidu

Baidu is China's largest internet search company, developing its own artificial intelligence models and chatbot named ERNIE, primarily for Chinese-speaking users.

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Big Tech

Big Tech is the collective term for the world's largest technology companies: they dominate search, phones, the cloud, and increasingly artificial intelligence.

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Blackwell

angolul: Nvidia Blackwell

Blackwell is Nvidia's chip generation unveiled in 2024, on which a significant portion of today's major AI systems train and run in data centers.

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Broadcom

An American chip and software company that designs custom accelerator chips and network chips for large AI data centers and owns VMware.

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ByteDance

ByteDance is the Chinese technology giant that created TikTok and is one of the largest players in artificial intelligence with its Doubao chatbot and Seed model family.

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is OpenAI's chatbot: you write or speak to it in everyday language, and it responds by generating text, images, summaries, or code.

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ChatGPT ads

ChatGPT ads are marked, paid offers appearing below the responses of the OpenAI chatbot, visible to adult users of the free and cheapest (Go) plans in countries where the feature is already available.

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ChatGPT Atlas

ChatGPT Atlas is OpenAI's web browser with ChatGPT built in: it understands the opened page and performs tasks on it upon request.

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Claude

Claude is the family of artificial intelligence models and conversational assistant from the US company Anthropic, which understands and writes text, answers questions, codes, and performs tasks independently.

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Claude Opus

Claude Opus is the most knowledgeable and most expensive model in the Claude artificial intelligence family from the company Anthropic, designed for the most difficult tasks requiring extensive reasoning.

basic · 15 news items

Cohere

Cohere is a Canadian AI company that builds language models, search tools, and agents for businesses and institutions, not for the general public.

basic · 2 news items

Copilot

angolul: Microsoft Copilot

Copilot is Microsoft's artificial intelligence assistant, integrated into Windows, the Edge browser, and Office programs to help write, summarize, search, and perform tasks.

basic · 125 news items

DALL-E

DALL-E is OpenAI's family of artificial intelligence image generation models, which creates new images—drawings, paintings, or photo-realistic illustrations—from text descriptions in a short time.

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DeepSeek

A Chinese artificial intelligence company and its namesake chatbot, which in early 2025 disrupted the global AI market with freely downloadable language models developed at a much lower cost than expected.

basic · 19 news items

Gemini

Gemini is Google's family of artificial intelligence models and the chat assistant built on it, which understands text, images, audio, and video.

basic · 93 news items

Gemma

Gemma is Google's family of open-weight AI models available for free download, which can run even on your own laptop or phone without an internet connection.

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Google

An American technology giant known for its search engine and one of the largest developers and providers of artificial intelligence with the Gemini model family.

basic · 326 news items

Google DeepMind

Google's artificial intelligence research and development division, which builds the Gemini models and scientific systems like AlphaFold.

basic · 21 news items

GPT

angolul: Generative Pre-trained Transformer

GPT is OpenAI's family of language models: AI models pre-trained on vast amounts of text that write new text on request, and it also powers ChatGPT.

basic · 34 news items

gpt-oss

gpt-oss is OpenAI's freely downloadable family of language models, which you can run on your own machine or server without the company's cloud.

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Grok

Grok is the chatbot of xAI founded by Elon Musk, which is also integrated into the X social platform and works from fresh posts.

basic · 25 news items

Groq

Groq is a US chip company whose own-designed processors, called LPUs, serve language model responses much faster than usual.

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H100

angolul: Nvidia H100

The Nvidia H100 is a high-performance AI chip designed for data centers, on which a significant portion of large language models similar to ChatGPT are trained and run.

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Huawei

A Chinese technology giant that manufactures phones and network equipment and ranks among China's most important artificial intelligence suppliers with its own AI chips, cloud, and models.

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Hugging Face

Hugging Face is an American company and online platform where anyone can share, download, and test artificial intelligence models, datasets, and ready-made demo applications.

basic · 23 news items

Intel

Intel is an American chipmaker: it designs and manufactures the "brain" of computers and servers, the processor, and increasingly offers chips for AI tasks.

basic · 251 news items

Llama

Llama is Meta's family of language models, which anyone can download, run on their own machine, and adapt for their own purposes.

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Lovable

Lovable is a Swedish-developed AI tool that allows you to build functional websites or web applications from requests described in everyday language, without programming knowledge.

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Meta

The parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, which develops its own AI models (Llama) and integrates its Meta AI assistant into its applications.

basic · 142 news items

Meta AI

Meta AI is the artificial intelligence assistant of the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; the name is also used for the company's AI research.

basic · 8 news items

Microsoft

An American software and cloud giant that offers the Windows and Office suites, the Copilot AI assistant, and enterprise tools for AI agents.

basic · 148 news items

Midjourney

Midjourney is a subscription-based artificial intelligence service that creates painting-like or photo-realistic images, and recently short videos, from text descriptions within a minute.

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Mistral AI

Mistral AI, a Paris-based artificial intelligence company developing its own language models, creates the Le Chat conversational assistant and is Europe's best-known alternative to American providers.

basic · 11 news items

Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company developing the Kimi chatbot and the freely downloadable Kimi language models.

basic · 10 news items

NotebookLM

NotebookLM is Google's AI-based notebook that answers questions, summarizes, and even creates podcast-like audio from your uploaded documents.

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Nvidia

Nvidia is an American chip design company whose graphics processors run a significant portion of today's AI systems, from chatbots to AI agents.

basic · 111 news items

o-sorozat (OpenAI)

angolul: OpenAI o-series (o1, o3, o4-mini)

OpenAI's o1, o3, and o4-mini models reason step-by-step before answering, making them slower but more reliable for complex problems.

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OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence company that develops and sells ChatGPT and the GPT language models behind it.

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OpenRouter

OpenRouter is an intermediary service that makes hundreds of AI models from many companies accessible through a single account and a single programming interface (API).

advanced · 3 news items

Oracle

angolul: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle is an American software company whose cloud service, OCI, rents computing capacity in massive data centers, increasingly for running artificial intelligence.

basic · 25 news items

Perplexity

Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that formulates responses to your questions using up-to-date web sources and shows where it obtained its claims.

basic · 28 news items

Qwen

Qwen is the artificial intelligence model family and chat application of the Chinese Alibaba Group, with several versions available for free download and local execution.

basic · 12 news items

Safe Superintelligence (SSI)

angolul: Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI)

An American AI research company with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, created for a single purpose: to build artificial intelligence smarter than humans but safe, without intermediate products.

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Scale AI

Scale AI is an American company that supplies human-labeled and verified training data to companies and government agencies developing artificial intelligence.

basic · 62 news items

Siri

Siri is Apple's digital assistant, which responds primarily to spoken but also to typed requests on the iPhone and other Apple devices, performing simple tasks.

basic · 16 news items

SK hynix

A South Korean chip manufacturer that produces memory chips and is one of the world's most important suppliers of high-speed HBM memory required for AI systems.

basic · 6 news items

SoftBank

SoftBank is a Japanese investment giant that evolved from a software distributor, then a telecommunications company, into one of the largest financial supporters of artificial intelligence: a major investor in OpenAI and majority owner of Arm.

basic · 8 news items

Stargate

angolul: Stargate Project

Stargate is a huge investment project by OpenAI and its partners, building data centers for artificial intelligence with hundreds of billions of dollars, mainly in the United States.

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Thinking Machines Lab

An American artificial intelligence research company founded in 2025 by Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, to build customizable, human-collaborative AI systems.

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TSMC

angolul: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

TSMC is a Taiwanese chip manufacturing company that produces chips designed by others, including the vast majority of the most advanced processors powering artificial intelligence.

basic · 2 news items

Windsurf

Windsurf is an artificial intelligence-based code editor in which a built-in agent independently writes, fixes, and runs code on the developer's instructions.

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xAI

xAI is Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, which develops the Grok chatbot and the underlying language models, closely tied to the X social media platform.

basic · 19 news items

Zhipu AI

angolul: Zhipu AI / Z.ai

Zhipu AI, internationally known as Z.ai, is a Beijing-based artificial intelligence company developing GLM language models and ranks among OpenAI's Chinese rivals.

basic · 8 news items

Developer basics

.env file

The .env file is a simple text file where the program stores its passwords, keys, and settings, separate from the program code.

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.gitignore

.gitignore is a simple text file that tells the Git version control system which files not to track and not to upload to the shared code repository.

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access token

An access token is a temporary digital entry card: a string of characters that allows a program to access your data without your password, for a limited time and with restricted permissions.

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architecture

angolul: software architecture

Software architecture is the large-scale blueprint of a program: it shows what main parts it consists of and how they connect.

basic · 7 news items

authentication

Authentication is the step where a system verifies that you are indeed who you claim to be, for example with a password, fingerprint, or code.

basic · 194 news items

backend

The backend is the part of an application or website running in the background, invisible to you, which stores data, applies rules, and serves the interface seen on the screen.

basic · 2 news items

bash

Bash is a command-line interpreter: you control the computer with typed text commands instead of clicking, and you can chain commands into automatically running scripts.

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boilerplate

angolul: boilerplate code

Boilerplate is a recurring, almost unchanged code snippet that must be written into many programs and in many places for the program to work, even though the actual, unique work is not in this.

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branch

A branch is a separate development line of the program's code, on which changes can be made while the functioning main version remains untouched.

basic · 3 news items

bug

A bug is a software error: the program does not do what its creators intended, resulting in wrong output, crashes, or strange behavior.

basic · 31 news items

build

A build is the process—and its result—when executable, testable software is created from code written by programmers.

basic · 296 news items

changelog

A changelog is a chronological list maintained from software version to version, detailing what was newly added, what changed, and which bugs were fixed.

basic · 4 news items

character encoding

Character encoding is the rule set that defines which number sequences correspond to letters and punctuation marks in a computer; today, UTF-8 is the most widespread.

basic · 233 news items

checkout

Checkout is the operation by which you retrieve a selected version of a project from the version control system to work on it on your own machine.

advanced · 20 news items

CI/CD

angolul: continuous integration / continuous delivery (or continuous deployment)

An automated assembly line that immediately builds, tests, and brings every code modification to a release-ready state, or even deploys it.

advanced · 3 news items

clone

Cloning is copying an entire code repository to your own machine, including the history of previous versions, so you can work on it locally.

basic · 22 news items

code coverage

Code coverage shows in percentage how much of a program's code was actually executed by automated tests.

advanced · 25 news items

code editor

A code editor is a program where developers write and fix software source code, aiding work with syntax highlighting, completion, and error indication.

basic · 8 news items

code formatter

A program that automatically standardizes the appearance of source code – indentation, line breaks, spaces – without altering its functionality.

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Command-line interface (CLI)

A command-line interface is a user interface where you do not click on icons but tell the computer what to do using typed text commands.

basic · 20 news items

command-line switch

angolul: command-line flag / command-line option

A short notation written after a command, usually starting with a hyphen, used to tell the program how to operate differently from the default.

basic · 92 news items

commit

A commit is a saved snapshot of the program's code: it records what changed, who changed it, when, and why, so you can return to it at any time.

basic · 47 news items

commit message

A commit message is a short text note explaining what and why someone changed in the program code at a specific save point.

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configuration file

A configuration file is a mostly simple text file containing a program's settings, allowing its operation to be modified without rewriting the program code.

basic · 7 news items

container

A container is a standardized software package that includes the program along with everything it needs, so it runs the same way on almost any machine, isolated from other programs.

advanced · 5 news items

CSV

angolul: comma-separated values (CSV)

A CSV is a simple text file that stores a table: each row is a record, and the values of the columns are separated by a comma or a semicolon.

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database

A database is an organized, computer-stored collection of data that allows for fast searching and can be used simultaneously by many people or programs securely.

basic · 18 news items

debugger

A debugger is a debugging tool with which a developer can run another program step by step and observe what happens inside it.

advanced · 14 news items

dependency

A dependency is a ready-made piece of software, typically written by others, that a program is built on: without it, the program could not be built or run.

basic · 6 news items

deploy

angolul: deployment

Deployment is the step where the finished software or AI system moves from the developer's machine to where users actually use it.

basic · 120 news items

diff

A diff is a line-by-line comparison of two versions of text or program code, showing what was added, deleted, or changed.

basic · 71 news items

Docker

Docker is a tool that packages a program together with everything it needs into a closed box, so it runs the same way on almost any machine.

advanced · 4 news items

documentation

Documentation is a written description that accompanies a piece of software: it explains what the program is for, how to use it, and how it is built internally.

basic · 17 news items

end-to-end teszt

angolul: end-to-end test (E2E test)

A software test that tries out the program as a real user would: from the first click to the final result, including every part.

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endpoint

An endpoint is the precise network (mostly internet) address of a service where a program sends its request and from which it receives the response.

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environment variable

An environment variable is a named setting that is not contained in the program's code but is provided to the program from outside, by the environment running it, at startup; the program reads from it how to operate.

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error message

The error message is the program's short text signal that something failed, and in good cases also why.

basic · 54 news items

exception

An exception is the program's signal that an unexpected situation has arisen during execution, preventing it from continuing its work via the usual path.

advanced · 6 news items

expenditure

angolul: release

A release is a finalized, version-numbered state of a software or AI model that the creators officially hand over to users.

basic · 132 news items

file extension

The file extension consists of a few characters after the last dot at the end of the filename, indicating the file type and what can open it.

basic · 7 news items

file path

A path is the exact address of a file or folder on a computer: it shows which folders must be traversed to reach it.

basic · 61 news items

folyamat

angolul: process

A process currently running on a computer: it has its own memory space and identifier, and the operating system starts, monitors, and stops it.

basic · 78 news items

fork

A fork is a complete copy of a software project or session that develops independently from the original, starting from a common point.

basic · 3 news items

frontend

The frontend is the part of a website or application that you see and use: buttons, menus, forms, and everything that appears on your screen.

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function

A function is a reusable, named part of a program that performs a well-defined task and usually returns a result.

basic · 38 news items

Git

Git is a version control program that records every change to a project's files, allowing any previous state to be restored and enabling multiple people to work simultaneously.

basic · 144 news items

hardcoding

Hardcoding is when data—such as a price, address, or password—is written directly into the program's code, so it can only be changed by rewriting the program.

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HTML

angolul: HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HTML is the basic language of websites: it uses tags to mark what is the heading, paragraph, image, or link on a page.

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HTTP

angolul: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP / HTTPS)

HTTP is the common rule set by which a browser or program requests data from a web server and receives a response.

basic · 1 news item

HTTP request

An HTTP request is the message by which a program – browser, application, or AI agent – requests data from a server or sends data to it over the internet.

basic · 64 news items

HTTP status code

A three-digit number with which the web server indicates for every request whether it succeeded, and if not, roughly what the problem was.

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IDE

angolul: integrated development environment

A program where a developer writes, runs, tests, and fixes software code in one place, now often with built-in AI assistance.

basic · 12 news items

integration test

A software test that checks whether individual, already functioning parts of a program work together flawlessly when connected.

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issue

An issue is a logged entry in a software project regarding a bug, idea, or task to be completed, which the team discusses, assigns, and eventually closes.

basic · 218 news items

JavaScript

JavaScript is the programming language of websites: it makes a page interactive, meaning it reacts to what you do, rather than being just readable text and images.

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JSON

angolul: JavaScript Object Notation

JSON is a simple, text-based data format in which programs exchange data in an organized, labeled form that is also human-readable.

basic · 1 news item

keretrendszer

angolul: framework

A pre-written software base that provides the skeleton and rules of a program, so the developer only needs to add their own unique parts.

basic · 79 news items

kliens

angolul: client

A client is the program or device that sends a request to another machine, the server, and displays or utilizes the received response.

basic · 34 news items

library

A library is a pre-written, reusable collection of program code (mostly work by others) that the developer integrates into their own program to avoid writing everything from scratch.

basic · 12 news items

linter

A linter is a program that reviews source code without running it and flags suspicious, erroneous, or non-compliant sections.

advanced · 3 news items

Linux

Linux is a freely usable, open-source operating system (in the narrower sense, its kernel), which runs the vast majority of the world's servers, cloud services, and AI systems.

basic · 12 news items

localhost

Localhost is the name your computer uses to refer to itself: if you enter this address, your machine connects to itself, not to the internet.

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log

A log is a program's automatically kept record: it records, line by line and with timestamps, what happened during operation so it can be reviewed later.

basic · 63 news items

mappa

angolul: directory / folder

A folder is a named storage location on a computer where you can keep files and additional folders in an organized way so you can find them later.

basic · 165 news items

Markdown

A simple markup system that lets you write headings, emphasis, lists and links in plain text using a few punctuation marks, which programs then display formatted.

basic · 5 news items

merge

Merge is the operation where two separately created versions of a program are combined into a single common version so that modifications from both are preserved.

basic · 18 news items

merge conflict

This occurs when the same part of a file is modified in two different ways by two people, and the version control system cannot decide on its own which version to keep.

advanced · 13 news items

microservice

A microservice is a small, independently running part of a large software system, specialized in a single task, that communicates with the other parts over a network using standardized messages.

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monorepo

A monorepo is a shared codebase where a company or team stores and manages the full source code of multiple separate programs in one place.

advanced · 2 news items

Node.js

Node.js is a free, open-source runtime environment that allows programs written in JavaScript to run outside the browser, on a computer or server.

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npm

npm is the package manager and massive online repository of the JavaScript world: with a single command, it downloads and installs reusable code parts written by others.

advanced · 2 news items

open standard

A publicly available common technical standard that anyone can implement in their own product, enabling devices and software from different manufacturers to work together.

basic · 2 news items

command line

angolul: command line

The command line is a text interface where you tell the computer what to do with typed commands instead of clicking.

basic · 20 news items

patch

angolul: patch / hotfix

A patch is a small modification issued after a software release that fixes a bug or security vulnerability without requiring the entire program to be reissued or reinstalled.

basic · 17 news items

pipeline

A pipeline is a series of linked, automated work steps where the output of each step becomes the input of the next.

basic · 19 news items

PowerShell

PowerShell is Microsoft's command line and scripting language, allowing you to control your computer and automate repetitive tasks by typing commands instead of clicking.

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production environment

The production environment is the operational system used by real users with real data, so every error here has real consequences.

basic · 299 news items

pull

Pull is the operation by which you download the latest changes made by others from the shared repository and merge them into the copy on your own machine.

basic · 43 news items

push

Push is the operation by which a developer uploads code changes saved on their own machine to the team's shared, remote repository.

basic · 103 news items

README

A README is an introductory file for a software project: it briefly describes what the program is, what it is good for, and how to install and use it.

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rebase

Rebase is a Git version control operation that moves your own modifications to the latest state of the shared code, as if you had started work from there.

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refactoring

Refactoring is the internal reorganization of existing program code while ensuring the program behaves exactly the same from the outside as before.

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regular expression

A regular expression is a compact search pattern made of symbols that allows a computer to find specific forms within text, such as phone numbers or email addresses.

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repo

angolul: repository

A repository is a shared storage for all files in a project that preserves every recorded change, allowing any previous recorded state to be retrieved and restored.

basic · 1859 news items

REST API

The REST API is a widely used set of rules for how programs request and send data to each other over the internet, using the same technique by which web pages load.

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rollback

Rollback is restoring a system to a previous, still-functioning state when an update, modification, or incomplete operation caused an error.

basic · 3 news items

schema

A schema is a pre-defined structural description: it specifies what fields a data item consists of, which are mandatory, and what type of value each can hold.

advanced · 1 news item

semantic versioning

A numbering rule in which the three parts of a software version number reveal how significant the update is and whether it might break other programs built on the software.

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shell

A shell is a program where you control the computer by typing commands: you manage files, launch programs, and automate tasks without using the mouse.

basic · 1 news item

source code

Source code is a sequence of human-readable instructions written in a programming language, from which a computer-executable program is created.

basic · 442 news items

SQL

SQL is the standard language for querying data from databases organized into tables, and for entering, modifying, and deleting data.

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SSH

angolul: Secure Shell (SSH)

SSH is an encrypted channel through which you can securely log in to a remote computer and issue commands as if you were sitting in front of it.

advanced · 4 news items

staging area

The Git staging area, where you select which changes to include in the next commit before permanently recording it.

advanced · 54 news items

staging environment

The staging environment is a realistic copy of the live system where developers test the new version before real users receive it.

basic · 2 news items

standard kimenet

angolul: standard output / standard error

The program has two separate text channels: one outputs the result, the other outputs error messages and warnings.

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szerver

angolul: server

A server is a computer or program that responds to requests from other machines and programs, providing them with data, a website, or a service.

basic · 34 news items

szintaxis

angolul: syntax

Syntax is the "grammar" of a programming or descriptive language: the formal rules that dictate how to write an instruction so the machine can interpret it.

basic · 2 news items

szkript

angolul: script

A script is a short, text-based program that tells the computer step by step what to do, thereby automating repetitive tasks.

basic · 2 news items

szoftverlicenc

angolul: software license

A software license is a legal permission that specifies who can use, copy, modify, or distribute a program, for what purpose, and under what conditions.

basic · 17 news items

tag

angolul: Git tag

A tag is a named, local marker in Git version control that records a specific state of the code – typically a released version.

advanced · 3 news items

technical debt

Technical debt is the cost of accumulated quick, unfinished solutions in software: they save time today but make every future change slower and more expensive.

basic · 2 news items

terminal

A terminal is a text window on a computer where you tell the machine what to do using typed commands instead of clicking.

basic · 16 news items

testing

angolul: software testing

Testing is the systematic verification that a program does what is expected of it. This occurs both before and after deployment.

basic · 102 news items

timeout

Timeout is a preset waiting limit: if a program or service does not respond within this time, the system stops waiting and signals an error.

basic

translator

angolul: compiler

A compiler is a program that transforms human-written code into a form executable by the computer, most often into machine code.

basic · 5 news items

unit teszt

angolul: unit test

A unit test is a short checking program that shows separately whether a small part of a software does what we expect from it.

advanced · 1 news item

URL

angolul: Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A URL is the precise address of things accessible on the internet—web pages, images, files, services—which you see in the browser's address bar and which links point to.

basic · 137 news items

variable

A variable is a named storage location in a program where data is placed so it can be retrieved or modified later by referring to its name.

basic · 13 news items

version control

Version control is a method and tool that preserves fixed states of a file or program in sequence, so any earlier version can be searched for and restored.

basic · 2 news items

virtual environment

An isolated folder on your computer where a Python program runs with its own add-ons without interfering with other programs.

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webhook

A webhook is an automated notification between two programs: when something happens in one, it immediately notifies the other at a predefined URL.

advanced

working directory

The working directory is the folder on the computer where a program or AI-agent is currently working and from which it searches for files by default.

basic

worktree

angolul: git worktree

A worktree is an additional working instance of the same codebase opened in a separate folder, allowing multiple tasks to be worked on simultaneously without them mixing.

advanced · 1 news item

WSL

angolul: Windows Subsystem for Linux

WSL is a built-in Windows feature that allows you to run a full Linux system on your machine without reinstalling or using a separate computer, alongside your usual programs.

advanced

YAML

YAML is a simple, human-readable text format in which program settings and data are described, organized by indentation.

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