Les mots de l'IA

Grandes idées

Being able to actually use a tool — because it exists in your language, on your device, at a price you can pay.

Rester honnête

Being answerable for the results, even when a machine helped produce them. A person is always responsible, never the tool.

Types d'IA

An AI given a goal and permission to take steps by itself — search, click, send — to reach it.

Les bases de l'IA

A set of clear steps a computer follows to solve a problem or make a choice.

Sécurité et vie privée

Without a name attached. True anonymity online is rare; assume you can be found.

Les bases de l'IA

Computer systems that do tasks that usually need human thinking, like writing, reading, or recognizing pictures.

Rester honnête

Saying clearly who or what made a piece of work — including when AI helped.

Les bases de l'IA

When a machine does a task on its own that a person used to do by hand.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI answers unfairly because its training data leaned one way — one language, one country, one point of view.

Types d'IA

A program you talk to in writing, that answers you in writing.

Rester honnête

Naming the exact source of a fact, quote, or idea so a reader can check it.

Les bases de l'IA

A machine that stores information and follows instructions very fast.

Quand l'IA se trompe

Another name for hallucination: filling a gap in memory with something invented.

Quand l'IA se trompe

The habit of trusting an AI more because it wrote its wrong answer in smooth, polite sentences.

Sécurité et vie privée

Saying yes, in a way that is free and informed, before someone uses your data or your image.

Rester honnête

Getting permission before you feed someone's writing, voice, or face into an AI.

Parler à l'IA

Everything the AI can see right now — your prompt, the earlier messages, any file you shared.

Parler à l'IA

A back-and-forth session where the AI remembers what was just said.

Sécurité et vie privée

A small file a website leaves on your device to remember you. Some cookies are useful, some follow you.

Les bases de l'IA

Facts, numbers, words, or pictures that a computer can read and count.

Sécurité et vie privée

When information a company was supposed to protect ends up in the wrong hands.

Comment l'IA apprend

Machine learning that uses many layers of small math steps stacked on top of each other.

Sécurité et vie privée

A fake video, image, or voice made by AI to look or sound like a real person.

Les bases de l'IA

Anything stored as numbers a computer can read: files, photos, voice notes.

Grandes idées

The gap between people who have fast internet, good devices, and training, and those who do not. AI can widen this gap or close it, depending on who builds it.

Rester honnête

Telling the reader or listener that AI was used to make what they are seeing or hearing.

Sécurité et vie privée

Scrambling information so only the right person can read it.

Quand l'IA se trompe

A wrong answer. AI makes errors even when it sounds sure.

Grandes idées

The rules we set for ourselves about right and wrong — including how we build and use AI.

Types d'IA

An AI that tries to match a face in a photo or video to a name.

Rester honnête

Comparing a claim to a trusted source before you believe it or repeat it.

Grandes idées

Treating people evenly. An AI is fair only if it works as well for the least-served group as for the most-served.

Comment l'IA apprend

One thing the AI pays attention to about an example, like the color of a fruit or the length of a sentence.

Parler à l'IA

A shorter next message that builds on the answer you just got.

Types d'IA

AI that produces new text, images, sound, or video instead of just picking from a list.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI writes something that sounds true and confident but is simply false — a fake quote, a fake source, a fake fact.

Grandes idées

A person watching what the AI does and stepping in when it goes wrong.

Types d'IA

An AI that draws a picture from a written description.

Les bases de l'IA

What you give the AI: a question, a photo, a voice clip, a file.

Parler à l'IA

A clear command inside your prompt, like "answer in one sentence" or "use simple words".

Grandes idées

AI that reads, writes, and reasons in Kreyòl Ayisyen as a first-class language — not as an afterthought translated from English.

Comment l'IA apprend

The correct answer attached to a training example, so the AI knows what right looks like.

Types d'IA

An AI trained on huge amounts of text so it can read and write in many languages.

Grandes idées

The ability to read, question, and use a technology on your own terms. AI literacy is the goal of this glossary.

Les bases de l'IA

The physical or online device where the AI runs.

Comment l'IA apprend

A way of building AI where the computer learns from examples instead of being told every rule.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the answer is technically true but leaves out the piece that would change your decision.

Quand l'IA se trompe

Any answer that does not match reality. A mistake by a machine is still a mistake.

Les bases de l'IA

The finished shape of what an AI has learned. You send it a question and it sends back an answer.

Comment l'IA apprend

A math structure loosely inspired by brain cells, used in most modern AI. It is not a brain.

Grandes idées

Natural Intelligence first, Artificial Intelligence second. Use your own mind to lead, and let the machine help — never the other way around.

Rester honnête

Something you thought through and wrote yourself, even if you used AI to check spelling or brainstorm.

Quand l'IA se trompe

An answer based on the world as it was months or years ago, not as it is today.

Les bases de l'IA

What the AI gives back to you: text, an image, a sound, a number.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI has memorized its examples too closely and stumbles on anything new.

Comment l'IA apprend

One small number inside the model that gets adjusted during training. A big model has billions of them.

Sécurité et vie privée

A secret word or phrase that unlocks your account. Long and unique beats clever.

Les bases de l'IA

Something that repeats. AI learns by finding patterns in many examples.

Sécurité et vie privée

Anything that points to you: your name, your face, your voice, your address, your phone.

Sécurité et vie privée

A fake message that tries to trick you into giving up a password or clicking a bad link. AI now writes very convincing ones.

Rester honnête

Passing off someone else's words or ideas as your own. Copying from AI without saying so is plagiarism too.

Les bases de l'IA

The AI's best guess about what comes next or what an answer should be. A guess, not proof.

Sécurité et vie privée

Your right to decide who sees your information and what they do with it.

Les bases de l'IA

A written set of steps that tells a computer what to do.

Parler à l'IA

What you write or say to the AI to tell it what you want.

Types d'IA

An AI that suggests what to watch, read, buy, or follow next based on what you and others have chosen before.

Comment l'IA apprend

Learning by trying things, getting a small reward for good moves, and adjusting.

Parler à l'IA

The AI's reply to your prompt.

Parler à l'IA

Asking the AI to say the same thing in a different way — shorter, warmer, more formal.

Types d'IA

A physical machine that senses, decides, and moves. Only some robots use AI.

Parler à l'IA

Telling the AI who to act as, like "a patient teacher" or "a careful editor".

Sécurité et vie privée

A trick designed to take your money, your data, or your trust.

Types d'IA

A tool that looks through the web and shows you pages that match your question.

Types d'IA

A car that uses cameras, sensors, and AI to drive without a person steering.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI gives you an answer instead of saying "I don't know", even though it does not know.

Les bases de l'IA

Instructions written for a computer. An app is software.

Rester honnête

Where a fact comes from. "An AI told me" is not a source.

Grandes idées

The right of a people to decide, in their own language and on their own land, how a technology will be used among them.

Parler à l'IA

Asking the AI to give you the short version of a long text.

Comment l'IA apprend

Learning from examples that already have the right answer marked on them.

Parler à l'IA

A hidden instruction from the developer that shapes how the AI answers everyone.

Parler à l'IA

A small piece of text — a word or a part of a word — that the AI counts as one unit.

Comment l'IA apprend

The long practice period where an AI studies many examples so it can answer later.

Comment l'IA apprend

The examples an AI learns from. If Kreyòl is missing from the training data, the AI will speak Kreyòl badly. What is left out matters as much as what is put in.

Parler à l'IA

Asking the AI to move a text from one language into another.

Types d'IA

An AI that turns text or speech from one language into another.

Rester honnête

Being open about how a decision was made and what the AI did or did not do.

Sécurité et vie privée

A second check besides your password — a code by text, an app tap — that keeps thieves out.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI has not learned enough from the examples and misses obvious patterns.

Comment l'IA apprend

Learning by grouping examples together without being told the right answer.

Types d'IA

An AI you speak to out loud that speaks back, like Siri or Alexa.

Rester honnête

A visible or hidden mark that shows a piece of media was made or edited by AI.

Comment l'IA apprend

A number that says how much one piece of information counts when the AI makes a decision.

Quand l'IA se trompe

When the AI names a source that does not exist, or a real source that does not say what the AI claims.

Grandes idées

The final decision, the final word, the final signature belongs to the human. The AI advises; you decide.