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There are three AI tools in RhinoArtisan and they do different jobs. The Assistant is a conversation: you ask, it answers, and it can work with your own material. Generative AI produces images from a description or a reference. Flow turns what you describe into a script that runs in Rhino.

This page covers the vocabulary. The sections that follow cover the tools.

The words you will keep seeing

Model. The trained system doing the work. Different models are good at different things, and they get replaced often — the one behind a feature today may not be the one behind it next year.

Prompt. What you ask for, in plain language. The single biggest factor in what you get back. Vague in, vague out: “a ring” gives you noise, while “a solitaire with a cathedral shank, six prongs, brushed white gold, on a dark background” gives you something to react to.

Context. Everything the model can see while it answers: your prompt, the conversation so far, and whatever material you have given it. It is finite — a long conversation eventually pushes the earliest part out of view.

Token. How the text is chopped up internally, roughly a short word or piece of one. It matters because usage and limits are usually counted in tokens, not in messages.

Hallucination. A confident, fluent, wrong answer. It is not a bug you can switch off; it is how these systems fail. Which leads to the next point.

What it will not do

Treat everything an AI gives you as a draft from a fast, tireless assistant who sometimes makes things up.

  • It cannot confirm that a piece is manufacturable. Wall thickness, stone seats, casting — those come from Manufacturing, which measures your actual geometry.
  • It does not know your prices. Weight and cost come from the breakdowns, not from a chat.
  • A generated image is not a design. It is a reference: a starting point for proportion, style and mood, which you then model.
  • It is not consistent. Ask twice, get two different answers. That is expected behaviour, not a fault.

Your data

Anything you type or attach is sent to the AI provider so it can be answered. Two habits are worth keeping: don’t paste in what you would not email — client names, prices, anything under NDA — and remember that a reference image you did not make may not be yours to feed in either.

The three tools

  • Assistant — the chat. Ask about jewellery, about a technique, or about your own material.
  • Generative AI — images from a prompt or a reference, for exploring an idea before you build it.
  • Flow — describe a repetitive job and get a script that does it, with Flow Studio for writing and keeping those scripts.