What is Temperature?
A setting that controls how predictable or creative an AI's output is — low for consistent answers, high for variety.
At a low temperature the model sticks to the most likely words, which is good for facts, summaries and code. At a higher temperature it takes more chances, which helps brainstorming, poetry and taglines but also increases odd or wrong output.
Chat apps usually set this for you. You can still get the same effect with words: “give me 10 wildly different ideas” versus “give me the single most accurate answer”.
Where you'll see it
Developer tools and APIs expose temperature as a number, often from 0 to 1 or 2.
Related terms
The skill of writing and refining prompts so an AI model gives reliable, high-quality results.
A way for apps and developers to use an AI model from their own code, usually paid per use (per token or per image).
The number that sets the random starting point of an AI image. Same prompt + same seed gives (nearly) the same image.
