A survival guide to the words behind the AI boom - Business Insider

The AI glossary you bookmarked won't save your next software purchase.

You're not tech-stupid. You're busy running an actual business while everyone throws terms like "distillation" and "fine-tuning" at you like they mean something useful. That $200/month tool collecting dust? That wasn't your failure. That was a solution sold before anyone understood your problem.

Here's what I've learned across 500+ implementations: the terminology arms race is a distraction. Tech companies invented a language that makes you dependent on experts. That's not accidental.

The real question isn't what AI can do. It's what specific task in your business takes your team the most repetitive time each week. Start there. One task. One tool. Thirty days.

Smaller, focused AI tools consistently outperform expensive all-in-one platforms for business owners. They're cheaper, faster to implement, and your team will actually use them because they solve one clear pain.

This week, write down the single most repetitive task your team complains about. That's your starting point. Nothing else matters yet.

What's the one AI tool your business tried that never got adopted — and what do you think went wrong?

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Distillation: The process of extracting the reasoning process and learned knowledge of a larger, existing AI model to a new, smaller AI model — ...