Course Catalog / BMU 120 / Glossary
Glossary: BMU 120 AI 101: Make AI Work for You
- AI chat assistant
- A program you type or talk to in plain words that writes a response.
- AI policy
- Your employer's rules for which tools you can use and how.
- approved tool
- A tool your employer has cleared for work use.
- confidential
- Information that is not meant to be shared outside your team or company.
- context
- Background facts the tool needs to give a useful answer.
- draft
- A first version you plan to edit.
- hallucination
- When AI states something false as if it were true.
- limits
- Rules for the answer, like time, cost, or busy days.
- low stakes
- A task where a mistake would not cause harm.
- playbook
- Your one page plan for how you use AI.
- private information
- Anything you would not post on a public bulletin board, like passwords, account numbers, or medical details.
- prompt
- What you type to tell the AI what you want.
- refine
- Ask for changes to an answer in the same chat.
- safe word
- A secret word or phrase your family uses to prove who is calling.
- study helper
- Using AI to explain and quiz, not to do the work for you.
- summary
- A short version of a longer text that keeps the main points.
- template
- A saved prompt with blanks to fill in next time.
- trusted source
- An official or expert source, like a government site or the original document.
- verify
- Check that something is true using another source.
- voice
- The way you sound when you write: your words, your rhythm.
- voice cloning
- Using AI to copy someone's voice from a short recording.
Back to Getting started or the syllabus.