@techNmak: https://x.com/techNmak/status/2058886981090951627
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A tweet thread listing 25 commonly used but often misunderstood AI concepts, such as tokens, embeddings, RAG, agents, and LoRA.
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25 AI Concepts People Use But Don’t Really Understand
AI became mainstream before most people understood its vocabulary. That is why so many conversations around AI sound confident but fuzzy. People say “tokens,” “embeddings,” “RAG,” “agents,” “LoRA,”
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