There are plenty of new terms relating to artificial intelligence (see
AI glossary), but a strange one has been "AI" itself. Whereas for the past 75 years, everything in the computer world has been a system (computer system, information system, operating system, etc.), AI people have avoided the word "system" like the plague. An AI system, the combination of hardware and software that produces results, has often been called simply an "AI." For example, "an AI can do this... an AI can do that..." has been common phraseology. It sounds a bit short, nevertheless, people say "the computer does this" when in fact it is always "the computer system" that is doing the work.
AI Models
The more accepted term for an AI system is an "AI model," because language models are the architecture used to train AI neural networks (see
large language model and
neural network).
AI Agents
As AI has become more commonplace, AI agents have emerged, which enable AI models to interact with the outside world (see
AI agent). More terms describing AI are AGI, Super AI, AI hard and AI complete (see
AGI,
AI complete and
technology singularity). For an AI overview, see
AI in a nutshell. For more AI terms, see
AI glossary.