30 AI Buzzwords Explained in 30 min (for Busy Leaders)

🤝 Want your team maximizing Claude? I run 1:1 and team AI workshops for companies doing $1M+ per year: https://aibuilder.academy/yt/5R8flBwcE5w 📄 Get the (free) 100 AI Terms Guide: https://100aiterms.com/ AI is forcing businesses to rethink how they work. However, navigating the technical jargon and jagged edges of the technology is a challenge. Here, I explain 30 key AI terms in plain English to help leaders make better AI decisions. 📰 Read more: https://shawhin.medium.com/30-ai-buzzwords-explained-in-plain-english-65190ab0a6f5?source=friends_link&sk=0a78b1a3727d739929ed20e87960440c References [1] arXiv:2001.08361 [cs.LG] [2] https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-3-2-connect-2024-vision-edge-mobile-devices/ [3] https://llm-stats.com/models/compare. [4] https://youtu.be/Q2HxSfS6ADo [5] https://github.com/jujumilk3/leaked-system-prompts [6] https://youtu.be/czvVibB2lRA?si= [7] https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app/?model=meta-llama%2FMeta-Llama-3-70B [8] https://research.trychroma.com/context-rot [9] https://genai.owasp.org/llmrisk/llm01-prompt-injection/ [10] https://youtu.be/Ylz779Op9Pw [11] https://youtu.be/sNa_uiqSlJo [12] https://youtu.be/-sL7QzDFW-4 [13] https://youtu.be/982V2ituTdc [14] https://youtu.be/2peE6mwoiXs [15] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz-ep5RbHosU02OKABBkbsQrYWmQfoZMH [16] https://youtu.be/N3vHJcHBS-w [17] https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/ [18] https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system [19] arXiv:2203.02155 [cs.CL] [20] https://www.businessinsider.com/att-open-source-ai-better-than-chatgpt-customer-service-calls-2025-5 [21] https://youtu.be/RveLjcNl0ds Introduction - 0:00 1) LLM - 0:22 2) Parameter - 1:07 3) Inference - 2:10 4) Prompt - 3:01 5) Prompt Engineering - 3:33 6) System Message - 4:55 7) Token - 5:53 8) Context Window - 7:14 9) Context Engineering - 8:54 10) Prompt Injection - 9:39 11) Guardrails - 11:03 12) Hallucination - 11:40 13) RAG - 12:22 14) Chunking - 13:12 15) Embedding Vector - 13:45 16) Semantic Search - 14:52 17) Vector Database - 15:35 18) Hybrid Search - 16:25 19) Evals - 17:27 20) Golden Dataset - 18:36 21) AI Agent - 19:22 22) Agentic AI - 19:55 23) MCP - 21:30 24) A2A - 22:38 25) Multi-agent System - 23:22 26) Fine-tuning - 24:07 27) SLM - 25:27 28) Train-time Compute - 26:34 29) Test-time Compute - 27:39 30) Reasoning Models - 28:35 100 AI Terms Guide - 29:30