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New API doc course topic: Using AI for glossary definitions

by Tom Johnson on Sep 4, 2023
categories: ai • api-doc • api-doc-site-updates • writing

Compiling and maintaining glossaries can be time consuming. Can AI tools help with glossaries? Just as AIs are good at creating summaries, providing definitions might be one of AI's strengths. A definition is just a short summary of a concept. AI tools are also good at identifying potentially unfamiliar, jargon-filled terms and then listing concise definitions for them.

See Using AI for glossary definitions for details.

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