# Temperature

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: temp, model temperature, creativity setting

A setting that controls how random an [AI model](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/model)'s word choices are. Low temperature gives predictable, focused answers; high temperature gives more varied, creative ones.

**For example:** A team sets temperature low for pulling numbers out of invoices and higher for brainstorming product names.

## Connects to (4)

- [Sampling](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/sampling): How a model chooses each next token from its list of likely options.
- [Probabilistic vs deterministic](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/probabilistic-vs-deterministic): Deterministic software gives the same output for the same input every time.
- [Hallucination](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hallucination): When an AI model states something false or invented as though it were true.
- [Prompt](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prompt): The instructions or question you give an AI tool in everyday words.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/temperature