Agents & Automation
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Agentic AI
Autonomous AI systems that plan, reason, and act across tools with minimal human input.
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Popular terms for beginners
These are the concepts most teams encounter first when exploring AI agents, automation, and AshnaAI.
Search & Knowledge
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Fetching relevant documents before generating an answer for better accuracy.
Agents & Automation
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AI Agents
Software entities that break goals into tasks and execute them using models, data, and APIs.
Fundamentals
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Large Language Model (LLM)
Neural networks trained on vast text corpora to understand and generate language.
Models & Prompting
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Prompt Engineering
Designing instructions and examples that steer model behavior reliably.
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No-Code AI
Building AI applications without traditional programming skills.
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Agentic AI
Autonomous AI systems that plan, reason, and act across tools with minimal human input.
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AI Agents
Software entities that break goals into tasks and execute them using models, data, and APIs.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Computer systems designed to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
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Augmentation
Enriching models with external context, tools, or data for more accurate outputs.
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Chain of Thought (CoT)
A prompting technique where models reason step-by-step before giving a final answer.
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Chunking
Splitting large documents into smaller pieces for efficient retrieval and RAG.
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Confidence Score
A signal of how certain a model is about a prediction or classification.
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Context Window
The maximum amount of text a model can process in a single request.
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Conversational AI
Systems that interact through natural language across chat, voice, and messaging.
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Generative AI
AI that creates new text, images, code, or audio from learned patterns.
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GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer)
A family of transformer-based language models used for text generation and agents.
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Grounding
Anchoring model outputs to trusted sources to reduce hallucinations.
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Guardrails
Policies and controls that keep AI outputs safe, compliant, and on-brand.
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Hallucination
When a model produces confident but incorrect or unsupported information.
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Human in the Loop
Keeping people involved in approvals, corrections, or escalations.
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Hybrid Search
Combining keyword and semantic search for better retrieval quality.
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