Generative AI

zero-shot

using an AI model on a task it was never trained for

Zero-shot means asking a model to do a task with no examples of that task first. Some models do this well; others are weak until trained. A zero-shot score shows what a model knows out of the box. A business usually needs the score after training on its own examples.

Think of it as

A new hire on day one, before anyone has shown them how the company does things.