Glossary

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4 entries beginning with O, the same definitions the articles use.

Observing
A pre-AISA condition where organisations are aware of AI and watching or learning, perhaps worried about being left behind, but have taken no structured, meaningful action or experimentation yet.
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See also:AI Stages of Adoption
Ontology
The shared agreement about what entities exist in a domain, what they may be called, what properties they hold, and how they are permitted to relate; the schema behind a knowledge graph.
Related: Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs: Why Structure is the Next Data Frontier
See also:Knowledge graph
Open Source Initiative
The body defining what genuinely qualifies as open source, the test separating truly open models from those that merely publish weights under restricted licences.
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See also:Open-weight
Open-weight
Foundation models whose weights are available for organisations to build on and align themselves, the practical basis for building rather than buying, though pre-training priors persist underneath.
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See also:Foundation model Pre-training Training