AI Glossary
Temperature
What is Temperature?
A parameter that controls the randomness of an LLM's outputs. Low temperature (near 0) makes responses more deterministic and focused; high temperature (near 1 or above) increases variety and creativity. Should be lowered for factual or structured tasks and can be raised for creative writing.
Example in practice
A developer building an AI that extracts dates from invoices would set temperature to 0 to ensure consistent, deterministic outputs — while a team using AI for brainstorming would raise it to generate more varied ideas.
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