Glossary
- Adobe Firefly
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an image-generating AI created by Adobe Sensei; trained only on licensed images and public domain content
- Bard
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a text-generating AI created by Google using LaMDA technology; interacts with the web
- Bing Chat
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See Microsoft Copilot
- BlenderBot
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a text-generating AI created by Meta; the latest version (BlenderBot 3.0) interacts with the web
- ChatGPT
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a text-generating AI chatbot created by OpenAI. Currently, only the paid version interacts with the web,
- DALL·E
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an image-generating AI created by OpenAI
- ErnieBot
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a text-generating AI (in Mandarin) from Chinese search engine Baidu
- Falcon AI
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a text-generating AI created by UAE’s Technology Innovation Institute; transparent, open source, trained on RefinedWeb, a custom-made dataset
- Jasper
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a for-pay text-generating AI aimed at businesses and blog posts
- LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)
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a LLM trained specifically on dialogue, such as Google’s Bard
- LLM (Large Language Model)
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a type of software / AI that accesses large databases it’s been trained on to predict the next logical word in a sentence, given the task/question it’s been given. Advanced models have excellent “perplexity” (plausibility in the word choice) and “burstiness” (variation of the sentences).
- Microsoft Copilot
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a text-generating AI created by Microsoft based on the GPT-4 model; interacts with the web. Originally called Bing Chat. Rebranded as Copilot in November 2023.
- Midjourney
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an image-generating AI; interacts with Discord
- NightCafe
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a free image-generating AI; uses Stable Diffusion algorithms to produce low-resolution images
- OpenAI
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the company that created ChatGPT and DALL-E
- Stable Diffusion
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an image-generating AI created by the startup Stability AI
- Sydney
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the name of the AI that supports Microsoft’s Bing search engine
- xAI
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the ChatGPT competitor launched by Elon Musk
