AI Terms To Know

Sunny Lalli
January 31, 2025

2 min read

Terms you should know for safely knowing about AI.

Terms to know

  • Deepfakes: Artificial videos or photos that synthetically replicate someone doing or saying something by using AI.
  • AI Chatbots: Software programs designed to communicate with people and have full, human-like conversations.
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Linguistics-based AI enabling computers to process human language similarly to how humans understand it.
  • Machine Learning: A subset of artificial intelligence, machine learning is a computer’s ability to replicate human thinking and behavior.
  • Voice Cloning: Also known as an audio deepfake, voice cloning artificially replicates someone else’s voice to make it sound nearly identical to the real person’s tone, pronunciation and intonation.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (2FA): Also known as multi-factor authentication (MFA), two-factor authentication is a security method that requires two forms of identification (such as a password or fingerprint and an email or text authentication code) to access information.
  • ChatGPT: ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses natural language processing to intelligently respond to user prompts and questions. ChatGPT was originally released in November 2022 and was developed by OpenAI, a California-based research organization.
  • Passkey: Passkeys are a replacement for passwords. They are faster to sign in with, easier to use, and much more secure. Passkeys are a replacement for passwords that are designed to provide websites and apps a passwordless sign-in experience that is both more convenient and more secure.
  • Authenticators: An authenticator app is a secure and easy method of identity verification that works by generating number codes that users enter alongside their credentials to access an account.