Glossary
Key terms used across mishmash.no. The same definitions power the inline stretchtext explanations — dotted-underlined terms you can click to unfold — so this list and the in-text explanations always match.
- AI
- AI is short for artificial intelligence — computer programs that learn from lots of examples, a bit like how you learn from practice
- AI literacy
- knowing enough about AI to use it, question it, and understand what it does — for everyone, not just programmers
- artistic research
- research carried out through making and performing art, where the artistic process itself produces new knowledge
- CoCreative AI
- AI systems designed for genuine partnership between humans and machines, where both contribute to the creative result
- computational creativity
- the research field studying whether and how computer systems can behave in ways we would call creative
- consortium
- a group of organisations teaming up on a shared goal — MishMash gathers universities, research institutes, and cultural and industry partners from all over Norway
- Creative AI
- machine systems that can produce results that are both novel and meaningful — not just random, and not just copies
- embodied AI
- AI with a body — systems that sense and act in the physical world, like robots or musical machines on a stage
- generative AI
- AI systems that produce new content — text, images, sound, or video — from patterns learned in large collections of examples
- LCA
- life-cycle assessment — a method for measuring the total environmental footprint of a product or system, from creation to disposal
- machine learning
- computer methods that get better at a task by learning from examples, instead of following rules written by hand
- NVA
- the Norwegian National Research Archive (Nasjonalt vitenarkiv), where Norwegian research is registered — mishmash.no pulls publications, people, and project data from it every night
- ORCID
- a free, unique ID for researchers that connects them to their publications across systems and employers
- prompt
- the instruction — usually text — you give a generative AI system to tell it what to make
- rule-based system
- early AI built from hand-crafted rules — like the first computer systems for music composition and painting
- stretchtext
- text the reader can stretch — unfolding more detail in place, an idea proposed by Ted Nelson in 1967 and used on this website
- work package
- a work package is research-speak for a team of people working on one part of a big project
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