Capabilities Glossary

Browse 9 capabilities terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

9 Capabilities Terms

Capability Model
A design in which access to operations or resources is represented by explicit capabilities or tokens of authority rather than by broad ambient permissions....
Capability Overhang
The idea that significant useful capabilities may already be possible with current models or techniques but remain unrealized because productization,...
Elicitation
The process of drawing out a model's capabilities, preferences, or hidden knowledge through careful prompting, testing, or setup. In AI research, elicitation...
Emergence
The appearance of higher-level behaviors or capabilities that are not obvious from inspecting individual components alone and may become visible only at...
Emergent Behavior AI
Unexpected or non-explicitly programmed behavior that appears as AI systems grow in scale or are combined with new workflows.
Frontier Model
A model that is near the leading edge of capability for its class at a given point in time. The phrase is often used to describe large general-purpose models...
Intelligence Explosion
A hypothetical scenario in which increasingly capable AI systems rapidly improve themselves or accelerate progress so quickly that intelligence grows...
Least Authority
A security principle that a component or actor should have only the minimum authority needed to perform its intended function and nothing more. It is closely...
Unlocking
The act of revealing or eliciting stronger model performance through better prompting, tooling, data, or workflow design rather than through a new underlying...

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