비전공자를 위한 AI 용어 사전
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Agent
An AI system that can take actions and make decisions to achieve a goal. Unlike a simple chatbot, an agent can use tools and plan its own steps. USP: High autonomy and the ability to solve complex problems by breaking them down into smaller tasks.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A theoretical stage of AI development where a machine can perform any intellectual task that a human can.
AI Teammate
A persistent, autonomous AI agent that functions like a co-worker rather than a turn-by-turn chatbot. Instead of waiting for prompt instructions, an AI teammate has its own workspace, tools, and objectives, executing multi-step workflows, collaborating asynchronously, and reporting back when milestones are reached.
Bolt.new
A full-stack web development agent that allows you to build, run, and deploy applications directly in your browser. USP: Creates entire, working web applications from a single text prompt.
Claude
An AI assistant from Anthropic known for its helpfulness and safety. USP: Exceptional reasoning and a focus on ethical AI behavior.
Claude Code
A tool that brings Claude's intelligence directly into your computer's terminal. USP: Allows developers to code and fix bugs using natural language without leaving their workspace.
Cohere
An enterprise-focused AI platform that provides high-performance large language models for businesses. USP: Specialized in RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and secure, scalable AI solutions for corporate environments.
Connectors
Software bridges that allow AI models to interact with external data sources, applications, or APIs. They enable the AI to 'read' your emails, 'search' your database, or 'post' to your social media. USP: They turn a static model into a dynamic tool that can work with your real-world data.
Context
Everything the AI 'remembers' during a single conversation. It's like the short-term memory that helps the AI understand what you're talking about right now.
Copilot (Microsoft)
An AI assistant integrated across Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. USP: Brings AI power directly into the productivity tools you use every day.
Cost
How much money each AI call costs. Every time the AI 'thinks', it uses computing power that costs money. This can add up very fast!
Cursor
An AI-powered code editor that uses sub-agents to handle complex tasks. It's so efficient that enterprises often find they don't need more than 90 developers. Major organizations like Lloyds Banking Group are already using it, and it's popular even among product designers for its ease of use.
DeepSeek
A powerful AI model known for its high performance in coding and mathematics. USP: A high-performance, open-source alternative that rivals the best closed models.
Dictionary
A collection of words and their meanings, just like this one! In AI, it often refers to the set of words a model understands.
ElevenLabs
A leading AI voice platform specializing in high-fidelity speech synthesis and voice cloning. USP: Known for its incredibly realistic and emotionally expressive AI voices that can be used for narration, gaming, and accessibility.
Eval
Short for 'Evaluation'. A systematic test to measure how well an AI performs a specific task. Example: A 'Tone Eval' that checks if the AI's responses are always polite and professional. USP: It turns 'it feels like it's working' into hard data you can trust.
Figma Make
An AI-powered design tool within Figma that generates UI designs and prototypes from text prompts. USP: Bridges the gap between brainstorming and high-fidelity design by creating editable Figma layers instantly.
Fine-Tuning
The process of taking a pre-trained AI model and further training it on a specific dataset to specialize it for a particular task or style.
Foundry AI
A platform or suite of tools (often associated with Palantir or specific AI infrastructure providers) designed to manage the entire lifecycle of AI models, from training to deployment and monitoring. USP: It provides the industrial-grade infrastructure needed to run AI at scale.
Gamma
An AI-powered presentation and document creator that turns ideas into beautiful slides and pages. USP: Eliminates the 'blank page' problem by designing professional presentations for you.
GitHub
The world's largest platform for hosting and collaborating on code, now powered by AI at every step. USP: The central hub where the global developer community builds and shares software.
GitHub Copilot
An AI pair programmer that suggests code and entire functions in real-time within your code editor. USP: The industry standard for helping developers write code faster and with fewer errors.
Google AI Studio
A web-based tool for developers to quickly prototype and experiment with Google's Gemini models. USP: The fastest and easiest way to start building apps with Google's most powerful AI.
Google AntiGravity
A high-performance coding harness and runtime environment used for building AI-powered applications. USP: Specifically optimized for low-latency and high-reliability AI execution.
Google NotebookLM
An AI-powered research and writing assistant that uses your own documents as its source of truth. USP: It only answers based on the files you give it, making it incredibly accurate for research.
Grok
An AI assistant developed by xAI (Elon Musk's AI company) integrated into the X platform. USP: Designed to have a bit of wit and a rebellious streak, with real-time access to information from the X platform.
Grokbot
An autonomous AI teammate platform developed by xAI. Each Grokbot agent is provisioned with its own cloud-hosted computer environment—including a virtual desktop, filesystem, terminal, and browser. Developers use them to triage repos, write and test code asynchronously, while salespeople deploy them for 24/7 prospect research, pipeline management, and outbound outreach.
Groq
A hardware company that developed the LPU (Language Processing Unit), designed to run LLMs at incredibly high speeds with near-zero latency.
Hallucination
When an AI model generates information that sounds confident and plausible but is factually incorrect or nonsensical.
Hooks
Automated triggers that activate when a specific event occurs. Think of them as 'trip wires' for AI. USP: They enable real-time automation and reactive behaviors in AI systems.
Instinct App
An invite-only personal AI assistant developed by Spear Street Technology designed for every human being. Operating on a 'Zero-UI' philosophy, users interact with Instinct simply through phone calls and text messages. It maintains deep context across email, calendar, and digital services to proactively handle everyday life—booking appointments, negotiating bills, scheduling, and personal logistics.
Latency
How long the AI takes to respond. In simple terms, it's the 'speed' of the AI. Lower latency means a faster, snappier experience.
Llama
Meta's open-source series of large language models that have become a standard for developers building private AI systems.
LLM (Large Language Model)
The foundational AI models (like GPT-4 or Claude) trained on massive amounts of text to understand and generate human-like language.
Lovable
A powerful AI app builder that turns natural language descriptions into full-stack, production-ready web applications. USP: It bridges the gap between a simple prototype and a real, scalable product.
Manus AI
A general-purpose AI agent designed to handle complex, multi-step tasks across various applications. USP: High autonomy, meaning it can figure out and execute long sequences of tasks on its own.
Markdown format
A lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax. It is often used for formatting readme files, for writing messages in online discussion forums, and to create rich text using a plain text editor. USP: It's simple to write, easy to read, and widely supported by AI tools for structured output.
MCP
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools. USP: It acts like a universal 'USB port' for AI, allowing models to seamlessly plug into external tools, databases, and applications.
Memory
What the AI keeps between different conversations. Long-term storage that allows it to remember who you are or what you like over time.
Midjourney
An AI-powered generative tool that creates high-quality, artistic images from natural language descriptions. USP: Known for its distinct, high-fidelity aesthetic and its community-driven development on Discord.
Minimax
An AI model provider known for its high-quality language and video generation capabilities. USP: Offers powerful models that excel in creative content generation and conversational AI.
Mistral
A leading European AI company known for producing high-performance, open-weight models that rival the best closed systems.
Mistral AI
A French AI company that produces high-performance, open-weight large language models. USP: Known for 'French-engineered' efficiency and minimalism, providing models that rival the best closed-source systems while being more accessible.
Model
Think of this as the 'brain' of the AI. It's a complex mathematical structure that has been trained on massive amounts of information to recognize patterns and generate responses.
Multimodal
AI systems that can process and generate multiple types of data simultaneously, such as text, images, audio, and video.
Observability
Watching and understanding what the AI is doing internally. It's like having a dashboard that shows how the AI is thinking and if it's making mistakes.
Ollama
A tool that allows you to run large language models locally on your own computer. USP: Provides a simple, terminal-first way to use powerful AI models without needing an internet connection or sending data to the cloud.
OpenClaw
An open-source framework or tool designed to provide Claude-like agentic capabilities, often focusing on tool use and long-context reasoning. USP: It brings the power of high-end agents to the open-source community.
OpenCode AI
An AI platform specifically designed for coding and software development tasks. USP: Focuses on developer-centric features and high-accuracy code generation to accelerate the programming workflow.
Orchestration
The 'conductor' coordinating multiple AI agents. It's the system that decides which AI should do what task and when.
Perplexity
An AI-powered search engine that provides direct answers with citations, often used as a conversational alternative to traditional search.
Pika
A platform that enables real-time, face-to-face video calls with AI agents (like Claude or OpenClaw) via Google Meet. USP: It features persistent memory and personality, allowing agents to execute tasks during live conversations.
Prompt
The input or instruction you give to an AI model to get a response. It's like the question you ask a teacher or the command you give a computer. USP: The quality of the prompt directly determines the quality of the AI's output.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
A technique that grants AI models access to external, real-time data sources to improve accuracy and reduce 'hallucinations.'
Replicate
A platform that allows developers to run machine learning models in the cloud via a simple API. USP: Makes it incredibly easy to integrate complex AI models into any application with just a few lines of code.
Replit
An online coding platform that uses AI to help you build and launch apps instantly. USP: A complete coding environment that works in your browser with no setup required.
RunwayML
A creative AI platform specializing in generative video and media tools. USP: A pioneer in AI video generation, providing cinematic-quality tools for filmmakers, designers, and creators.
Security
Making sure the AI can't be hacked, tricked, or misused. It's about building guardrails to keep both the AI and the users safe.
Skills
Special moves or capabilities you teach an AI, like always writing in a specific style or performing a specific task. USP: They allow for consistent, reusable behaviors across different AI interactions.
Sub agents
Specialist AI agents that work under a main agent to handle specific tasks. Think of them as a team of experts (like a chef, a waiter, and a dishwasher) working together to run a restaurant. USP: They allow for parallel processing and higher accuracy by letting each agent focus on what it does best.
Together AI
A cloud platform for building and running open-source AI models. USP: Provides high-performance infrastructure and a wide library of open-source models for developers to build their own AI applications.
Tokens
The basic units of text that an AI processes. Think of them as the 'syllables' or 'puzzle pieces' of a language. A simple task like 'What is 2+2?' uses just a few tokens, while a complex task like 'Summarize this 50-page legal document' can use thousands. USP: They are the fundamental currency of AI models, determining both the cost and the amount of information an AI can process at once.
Tools
Extra abilities the AI can use, like a calculator, a web search engine, or a way to run code. It's like giving the AI a Swiss Army knife.
V0
A generative UI tool that creates React components and website layouts from text prompts. USP: Turns your design ideas into production-ready code in seconds.
Vibe coding
A modern approach to software development where the developer focuses on high-level intent, architectural 'vibes,' and natural language instructions, while AI handles the heavy lifting of writing and debugging code. USP: It makes building software as fast as thinking about it.
VoltAgent
An AI agent framework designed for building autonomous, terminal-native digital helpers. USP: Focuses on high-speed execution and deep integration with developer tools for automated workflows.
xAI
Elon Musk's AI research lab focused on building advanced artificial intelligence to understand the universe. USP: The creator of the Grok assistant, known for its futuristic and stark monochrome aesthetic.