Because AI is an exploding field, there are countless new terms. There are more than 500 in this publication along with 700+ synonyms. See
AI glossary.
Techies love to make up new ways of saying the same thing. For example, instead of "AI application" or "AI system," it is common to say just plain AI, such as "there's an AI for that."
AI Models
Chatbots such as ChatGPT and Gemini are AI applications everyone can use. They rely on large language models (LLMs), which are neural networks that have been trained on huge amounts of data. Therefore, "AI model" is a commonly used term to refer to AI applications because they are the source from which chatbots obtain their knowledge. Earlier AI systems did not use the model architecture (see
expert system). See
large language model and
neural network.
More Terms
Terms describing AI capabilities are
AGI,
Super AGI,
AI complete and
technology singularity. For an AI overview, see
AI in a nutshell.