Artificial Intelligence
Software that performs tasks normally requiring human judgement — recognising images, writing text, making predictions — by learning patterns from data rather than following hand-written rules.
AI & Technology
GPU
A processor designed to run many calculations in parallel, which makes it the workhorse for both AI training and crypto mining.
Semiconductor
The chips that power every electronic device, produced in a small number of extraordinarily expensive fabrication plants.
Data Centre
A facility full of servers that runs cloud services and AI workloads, consuming large amounts of electricity and water for cooling.
Encryption
Scrambling data so only someone holding the right key can read it. End-to-end means not even the service carrying the message can.
Inference
Running a trained model to get an answer, as opposed to training, which is the far more expensive process of building it.
Parameters
The adjustable values inside a model that training tunes. Counts are quoted in billions as a rough proxy for capability.
Large Language Model
A model trained on enormous amounts of text to predict what comes next, which in practice lets it answer questions, summarise, translate and write code.
Generative AI
AI that produces new content — text, images, audio, video, code — rather than only classifying or predicting from existing data.