AI has a lot of abbreviations, and when you start learning, you will encounter them at every step. In fact, AI itself is abbreviated from Artificial Intelligence. Don’t get lost when you hear them and to help you with that, I’ve listed the most commonly used AI terminology and what it stands for.
- AI – Artificial Intelligence
- ML – Machine Learning
- DL – Deep Learning
- ANI – Artificial Narrow Intelligence
- AGI – Artificial General Intelligence
- ASI – Artificial Superintelligence
- XAI – Explainable AI
- NN – Neural Network
- ANN – Artificial Neural Network
- CNN – Convolutional Neural Network
- RNN – Recurrent Neural Network
- LSTM – Long Short-Term Memory
- GRU – Gated Recurrent Unit
- GAN – Generative Adversarial Network
- MCP – Model Context Protocol
- VAE – Variational Autoencoder
- SVM – Support Vector Machine
- k-NN – k-Nearest Neighbors
- PCA – Principal Component Analysis
- NLP – Natural Language Processing
- NLU – Natural Language Understanding
- NLG – Natural Language Generation
- LLM – Large Language Model
- SLM – Small Language Model
- VLM – Vision Language Model
- LMM – Large Multimodal Model
- RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
- GPT – Generative Pre-trained Transformer
- BERT – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers
- T5 – Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- CLIP – Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training
- NER – Named Entity Recognition
- S2S – Sequence-to-Sequence
- TF-IDF – Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency
- CV – Computer Vision
- OCR – Optical Character Recognition
- RL – Reinforcement Learning
- RLHF – Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
- DPO – Direct Preference Optimization
- PPO – Proximal Policy Optimization
- DQN – Deep Q-Network
- MDP – Markov Decision Process
- API – Application Programming Interface
- SDK – Software Development Kit
- GPU – Graphics Processing Unit
- TPU – Tensor Processing Unit
- NPU – Neural Processing Unit
- MLOps – Machine Learning Operations
- ETL – Extract, Transform, Load
- EDA – Exploratory Data Analysis
- ROC – Receiver Operating Characteristic
- AIaaS – AI as a Service
- AGI Safety – Artificial General Intelligence Safety
- AI TRiSM – AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management
