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Your future skills set must include basic knowledge of AI and Web3. These are the technology abbreviations and acronyms you need to know in 2023 to understand the AI revolution. When underlined, you can click on a term to get a compact explanation of the core issues with that specific technology. To join the post-digital age its essential to know its own jargon.
| Acronym | Term | Synonyms |
| 2FA | Two-Factor Authentication | |
| 4IR | Fourth Industrial Revolution | Industry 4.0, 4th industrial revolution |
| 5G | 5th Generation (mobile network) | Fifth generation (mobile network) |
| AGI | Artificial General Intelligence | General Artificial Intelligence, General AI |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
| AM | Additive Manufacturing | 3D printing |
| AMM | Automated Market Maker | |
| AMQP | Advanced Message Queuing Protocol | |
| ANI | Artificial Narrow Intelligence | Narrow Artificial Intelligence, Narrow AI, Weak AI |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network | |
| API | Application Programming Interface | |
| aR | Assisted Reality | |
| AR | Augmented Reality | |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit | |
| ASI | Artificial Social Intelligence | |
| ASI | Artificial Super Intelligence | Superintelligence, Hyperintelligence, Superhuman intelligence, Ultra-intelligence |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition | |
| BBS | Blockchain-Based Solution | |
| BERT | Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (language model) | |
| CBDC | Central Bank Digital Currency | |
| CEC | Constant Error Carousel | |
| CeFi | Centralized Finance | |
| CEX | Centralized Exchange | |
| CGI | Computer-Generated Imagery | |
| CI | Collective intelligence | |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Network | ConvNe |
| ConvNe | Convolutional Neural Network | CNN |
| CTC | Connectionist Temporal Classification | |
| CV | Computer Vision | |
| DAC | Decentralized Autonomous Corporation | |
| DAF | Decentralized Autonomous Federation | |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph | |
| DAO | Decentralized Autonomous Organization | |
| dApp | Decentralized application | DApp, Dapp, dapp |
| DeFi | Decentralized Finance | |
| DeGov | Decentralized Governance | |
| DevOps | Development and Operations | |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard | |
| DEX | Decentralized Exchange | |
| DID | Decentralized Identifier | Decentralized ID |
| DL | Deep Learning | Deep Structured Learning |
| DLT | Distributed Ledger Technology | |
| DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act | |
| DNN | Deep Neural Network | |
| DoS | Denial of Service | |
| DP | Digital Philosophy | |
| DPoS | Delegated Proof-of-Stake | |
| DSL | Digital Subscriber Line | |
| ECDSA | Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm | |
| EOA | Externally Owned Account | |
| FoV | Field of View | |
| FOSS | Free and Open-Source Software | |
| FPT | Functional Programming Token | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | Application Layer Protocol (Web2) |
| FWA | Fixed Wireless Access | |
| GameFi | Hybrid term, combining Game and Finance | |
| GAN | Generative Adversarial Network | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | |
| GPT | Generative Pre-Training (language model) | |
| GPU | Graphic Processing Unit | |
| GTP-3 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 | |
| GTP-4 | Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4 | |
| Gwei | Giga-Wei | Shannon |
| HDRI | High Dynamic Range Image | |
| HMAC | Hash-based Message Authentication Code | |
| HMD | Head-Mounted Display | |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol | Application layer protocol and backbone of the World Wide Web (Web2) |
| HTTPS | Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure | |
| HUD | Head-Up Display | Heads-Up Display |
| ICO | Initial Coin Offering | |
| IDO | Initial DEX Offering | Initial Decentralized Exchange Offering |
| IDS | Intrusion Detection System | |
| IEO | Initial Exchange Offering | |
| Industry 4.0 | Fourth Industrial Revolution | 4IR |
| IIoT | Industrial Internet of Things | |
| IoT | Internet of Things | |
| IPFS | InterPlanetary File System | |
| IRL | In Real Life | |
| ISO | International Standardization Organization | |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Expert Group | JPG |
| JPG | Joint Photographic Expert Group | JPEG |
| JSON | JavaScript Object Notation | |
| KOL | Key Opinion Leader | |
| L2E | Learn-to-Earn | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LAWS | Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems | Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Killer robots |
| LLM | Large Language Model | |
| LP | Liquidity Pool | |
| LSTM | Long Short-Term Memory | |
| M2M | Machine-to-Machine (e.g. M2M communication) | |
| Metanomics | Hybrid term, combining metaverse and economics | |
| ML | Machine Learning | |
| MMORPG | Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game | |
| MQTT | Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (standard for IoT messaging) | |
| MR | Mixed Reality | Hybrid Reality |
| uTP | Micro Transport Protocol | |
| MVP | Minimum Viable Product | |
| NFS | Non Fungible Signature | |
| NFT | Non-fungible token | |
| NFTs 2.0 | Second generation NFTs | uNFT, Utility NFT |
| NLNN | Non-Learning Neural Networks | |
| NLI | Natural Language Interpretation | |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing | |
| NLU | Natural Language Understanding | |
| NN | Neural Network | Neural Net |
| NPC | Non-Player Character | |
| NSFW | Not Safe For Work | |
| OSS | Open Source Software | |
| OTP token | One-Time Password token | |
| P2E | Play-to-Earn (gaming) | |
| P2P | Peer-to-peer | |
| PCFG | Probabilistic Context Free Grammar | |
| Portable Document Format | ||
| PFP | Profile Picture | |
| PFP NFT | Profile Picture Non-Fungible Token | |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy | |
| Phygital | Fusion of the words physical and digital | |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information | |
| PM | Programmable Money | |
| POAP | Proof of Attendance Protocol | |
| POP | Point of Presence | |
| PoS | Proof of Stake | |
| PoW | Proof of Work | |
| PPC | Pay Per Click | |
| PropTech | Property Technology | |
| PUP | Potentially Unwanted Program | |
| QR | Quick Response (code) | |
| RaaS | Ransomware as a Service | |
| RJT | Replicated Journal Technology | |
| RL | Reinforcement Learning | |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Network | |
| RPA | Robotic Process Automation | |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication | Rich Site Summary | |
| SC | Smart Contract | |
| SFX | Special Effects | |
| SIP | Session Initiation Protocol | |
| SL | Supervised Learning | |
| SLAM | Simultaneous Location And Mapping | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | Application Layer Protocol (Web2) |
| SMR | State Machine Replication | |
| SNN | Simulated Neural Network | |
| SQL | Structured Query Language | |
| SR | Speech Recognition | |
| SSI | Self-Sovereign Identity | |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer | |
| SSO | Single Sign-On | |
| STML | Spoken Text Markup Language | |
| STO | Security Token Offering | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security | |
| TOGAF | The Open Group Architecture Framework | TOTP |
| TokenID | Token Identifier | |
| TOTP | Time-based One-time Password | |
| TTS | Text-to-Speech | |
| UGC | User-Generated Content | |
| UI | User Interface | |
| UL | Unsupervised Learning | |
| uNFT | Utility NFT | NFT 2.0 |
| UTXO | Unspent Transaction Output | |
| UX | User Experience | |
| VFX | Visual effects | |
| VR | Virtual Reality | |
| VTubing | Virtual YouTubing | |
| WAP | Wireless Access Point | |
| W3C | World Wide Web Consortium | |
| Web3 | Web 3.0 | Decentralized Web |
| WWW | World Wide Web | |
| XR | Extended Reality | X-Reality |
