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CAWI

What does CAWI Stand for? CAWI stands for ‘Computer Assisted Web Interviewing’. CAWI is the acronym for Computer Assisted Web Interviewing. A Web survey is part of a methodology based on a questionnaire provided to the respondent with a link, a…

CATI

What does CATI Stand for? CATI stands for ‘Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing’. It is used in market research where an interviewer reads a questionnaire from a computer and inputs the participant’s answers as they respond on the telephone.   See…

GPAI Systems

What are GPAI Systems? GPAI stands for General Purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI). It refers to AI systems that have a wide range of possible uses, both intended and unintended by the developers. GPAI systems can be used for many different…

Generative A.I

What is Generative A.I? Generative A.I covers a variety of A.I systems and tools capable to creating (or generating) content include text, images and sound.   See also: ISO 42001 the international standard for A.I Systems.

Large Language Model (LLM)

What are Large Language Models (LLM)? A large language model is a computational model used in Artificial Intelligence (A.I). It’s notable for its ability to achieve general-purpose language generation and other natural language processing tasks such as classification   See…

Artificial Intelligence (A.I)

“the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” A.I has many uses in risk management including generative content for policies, procedures, risk…

MT – Machine Translation

Automated translation of text or speech from one natural language to another using a technology tool. Machine Translation Output, MT Output  

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol Or also Voice over IP – this is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over internet protocol networks such as the Internet.

UPS

Uninterrupted Power Supply An uninterruptible power supply, also uninterruptible power source, UPS or battery/flywheel backup, is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source or mains power fails. A UPS differs from an…