temperature

[ TEM-per-uh-cher ]noun

A dial for how much the AI is allowed to be random when picking its next word.

Explanation

Turn it down for code and for pulling facts out of documents. Turn it up for ideas. It does not make the machine more right or more wrong, only more or less predictable.

Related words

• token — The unit an AI reads and writes: roughly a short word, or a piece of a longer one.
• Ralph loop — Running an AI at the same job over and over until the answer stops changing.