Category: Glossary

Plain-English definitions of AI terms, jargon, and acronyms.

  • What is Conversational AI? — AI Glossary

    What is Conversational AI? — AI Glossary

    Conversational AI is technology that enables computers to understand and respond to human language in natural, dialogue-based interactions — powering chatbots, voice assistants, and AI customer service agents.

  • What is Speech-to-Text (STT)? — AI Glossary

    What is Speech-to-Text (STT)? — AI Glossary

    Speech-to-text (STT), also called automatic speech recognition (ASR), converts spoken audio into written text. Modern AI-powered STT achieves human-level accuracy across many languages and accents.

  • What is Text-to-Speech (TTS)? — AI Glossary

    What is Text-to-Speech (TTS)? — AI Glossary

    Text-to-speech (TTS) is AI technology that converts written text into spoken audio — generating natural-sounding human voices from text input. Modern TTS is nearly indistinguishable from human speech.

  • What is Text-to-Image? — AI Glossary

    What is Text-to-Image? — AI Glossary

    Text-to-image AI generates photorealistic or artistic images from natural language descriptions — type a prompt, get an image. Tools like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion brought this capability to millions of users.

  • What is Text-to-Video? — AI Glossary

    What is Text-to-Video? — AI Glossary

    Text-to-video AI generates video clips from natural language descriptions — type a prompt and the AI creates moving, coherent video. This technology advanced rapidly in 2024 with models like Sora, Runway, and Kling.

  • What Is Remote ID? — Drone Regulatory Glossary

    Remote ID is the FAA rule requiring most drones to broadcast their ID, location, and operator location while flying. Think: digital license plate.

  • What Is JSON? — AI Glossary

    JSON is the lightweight text format computers use to swap structured data. It’s how Claude, ChatGPT, and every major AI API send requests and responses.

  • What Is Tactical Empathy? — Negotiation Glossary

    Tactical empathy is the Chris Voss negotiation technique of naming what the other party feels — lowering defenses and unlocking what they won’t say.

  • What Are Claude Skills? — AI Glossary

    Claude Skills are reusable instruction packages Anthropic introduced in 2026 — Claude loads them automatically when a matching trigger fires in a prompt.

  • What Are Evals (in AI)?

    Evals (evaluations) are the tests that measure how well an AI system does its job. What they check, why they matter, and how they differ from normal tests.

  • What Is BVLOS? — Drone Regulatory Glossary

    BVLOS — Beyond Visual Line of Sight — is FAA-speak for drone flights where the pilot can’t see the drone. The unlock for delivery, inspection, mapping.

  • What Is a Small Language Model?

    A small language model (SLM) is a compact AI model designed to run on a laptop or phone — fast, cheap, private, but less capable than frontier LLMs.