Artificial Intelligence An Overview
 
Abbreviations and Terms
Abend   Abnormal End (stopping of job execution)
AGV   Automated Guided Vehicles (robotic material transferring vehicle)
ANN   Artificial Neural Network
API   Application Programming Interface (custom programs that solve unique functionality)
BPE   Byte Pair Encoding
CMU   Carnegie-Mellon University (was known as Carnegie Institute of Technology)
CNN   Convolution Neural Network
CPU   Central Processing Unit (computer, server, other computer based devices etc.)
DAG   Directed Acyclic Graph
DARPA   Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (USA)
DBSCAN   Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise
DOF   Degrees of Freedom (in robots)
FFN   Feed Forward Network
FLOPS   Floating point Operations Per Second (floating point computing power of a chip)
FPGA   Field Programmable Gate Array
GELU   Gaussian Error Linear Units
  GELUtanh(x) = 0.5 * x (1 + tanh((2/π)0.5 * (x + 0.044715 * x3)))
  GELUsigmoid(x) = x * sigmoid(1.702 * x)
GIGO   Garbage In Grabage Out
GLM   Generalized Linear Model
GMM   Gaussian Mixture Models
GPR   Ground Penetrating Radar
GPS   Global Positioning System/Satellite
GPT   Generative Pre-trained Transformer
GPU   Graphics Processing Unit (graphics and image processing hardware/chip)
GRU   Gated Recurrent Units
IC   Integrated Circuit
IFT   Intutive Fine Tuning (LLM)
IoT   Internet of Things
IR   Infra Red (sensor)
JIT   Just In Time
Laser   Light Amplification of Stimulated Emission of Radiation
LCNC   Low Code/No Code (autonomous code creation on demand by prompting)
Lidar   Light Detecting And Ranging (also Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging)
LISP   List Processing (programming language) designed by John McCarthy
LLM   Large Language Model
LSTM   Long Short-Term Memory
MCMC   Markov Chain Monte Carlo
MCP   Model Context Protocol (open standard in LLM)
MIT   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
MLP   Multi-Layer Perceptron
MPP   Massively Parallel Processing
MRP   Material Requirement Planning
NLP   Natural Language Processing
NMT   Neural Machine Translation
PCA   Principal Component Analysis
PCB   Printed Circuit Board (hardware assembly)
PCI DSS   Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PCI SSC   Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council
POS   Point Of Sale (terminal, software/system, can also be replacement of cash register)
Radar   Radio detection and ranging
RAG   Retrieval Augmented Generation
RCA   Root Cause Analysis
ReLU   Rectified Linear Unit; f(x) = MAX(x,0)
RLHF   Reinforcement learning from human feedback (LLM)
RMSE   Root Mean Square Error (computation)
RNN   Recurrent Neural Network
RPY   Roll Pitch Yaw (typical robot hand/gripper motion)
RRT   Rapidly exploring Random Tree algorithm
SDI   Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars, space based defense), USA
SFT   Supervised Fine Tuning (LLM)
SLA   Service Level Agreements
SLM   Small Language Model
SOM   Self-Organizing Maps
SRN   Simple Recurrent Network
SVD   Singular Value Decomposition
SVM   Support Vector Machines
SRI   Stanford Research Institute (separated from Stanford University in 1970 and known as SRI International)
TSP   Travelling Salesman Problem
ULSI   Ultra Large Scale Integration
URL   Uniform Resource Locator
VGG   Visual Geometry Group (standard for deep CNN)
VLSI   Very Large Scale Integration
x86   Generic name of Intel-8086, 80186, ... microprocessor architecture



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Revised Date: August 31th, 2024