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A

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Access

Poko tradui

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

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Accountability

Poko tradui

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

Sonje

The AI does not sign the letter — you do.

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Agent

Poko tradui

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

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Algorithm

Poko tradui

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

Egzanp

A recipe is an algorithm for cooking.

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Anonymous

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

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Artificial Intelligence

Poko tradui

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

Sonje

AI is a tool, not a person.

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Attribution

Poko tradui

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

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Automation

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

B

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Bias

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

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Chatbot

Poko tradui

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

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Citation

Poko tradui

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

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Computer

Poko tradui

A machine that stores information and follows instructions very fast.

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Confabulation

Poko tradui

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

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Confidence Trap

Poko tradui

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

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Consent

Poko tradui

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

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Consent to Use

Poko tradui

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

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Context

Poko tradui

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

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Conversation

Poko tradui

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

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Cookie

Poko tradui

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

D

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Data

Poko tradui

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

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Data Breach

Poko tradui

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

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Deep Learning

Poko tradui

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

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Deepfake

Poko tradui

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

Sonje

If it feels wrong, slow down and verify before you share.

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Digital

Poko tradui

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

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Digital Divide

Poko tradui

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.

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Disclosure

Poko tradui

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

E

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Encryption

Poko tradui

Scrambling information so only the right person can read it.

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Error

Poko tradui

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

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Ethics

Poko tradui

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

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Facial Recognition

Poko tradui

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

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Fact-Check

Poko tradui

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

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Fairness

Poko tradui

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

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Feature

Poko tradui

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

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Follow-up

Poko tradui

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

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Generative AI

Poko tradui

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

H

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Hallucination

Poko tradui

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

Egzanp

An AI invents a book title that does not exist and attributes it to a real author.

Sonje

Confidence is not proof. Check before you share.

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Human Oversight

Poko tradui

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

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Image Generator

Poko tradui

An AI that draws a picture from a written description.

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Input

Poko tradui

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

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Instruction

Poko tradui

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

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Kreyòl AI

Poko tradui

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

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Label

Poko tradui

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

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Large Language Model

Poko tradui

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

Egzanp

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are large language models.

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Literacy

Poko tradui

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

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Machine

Poko tradui

The physical or online device where the AI runs.

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Machine Learning

Poko tradui

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

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Missing Context

Poko tradui

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

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Mistake

Poko tradui

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

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Model

Poko tradui

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

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Neural Network

Poko tradui

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

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NI + AI™

Poko tradui

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

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Original Work

Poko tradui

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

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Outdated Information

Poko tradui

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

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Output

Poko tradui

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

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Overfitting

Poko tradui

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

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Parameter

Poko tradui

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

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Password

Poko tradui

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

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Pattern

Poko tradui

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

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Personal Data

Poko tradui

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

Sonje

Do not paste personal data into an AI unless you have to.

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Phishing

Poko tradui

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

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Plagiarism

Poko tradui

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

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Prediction

Poko tradui

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

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Privacy

Poko tradui

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

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Program

Poko tradui

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

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Prompt

Poko tradui

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

Egzanp

"Write a two-line birthday message for my mother" is a prompt.

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Recommendation System

Poko tradui

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

Sonje

The suggestion is not a friend. It is a guess based on clicks.

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Reinforcement Learning

Poko tradui

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

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Response

Poko tradui

The AI's reply to your prompt.

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Rewrite

Poko tradui

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

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Robot

Poko tradui

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

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Role

Poko tradui

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

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Scam

Poko tradui

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

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Search Engine

Poko tradui

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

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Self-Driving Car

Poko tradui

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

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Silent Failure

Poko tradui

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

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Software

Poko tradui

Instructions written for a computer. An app is software.

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Source

Poko tradui

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

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Sovereignty

Poko tradui

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

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Summarize

Poko tradui

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

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Supervised Learning

Poko tradui

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

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System Prompt

Poko tradui

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

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Token

Poko tradui

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

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Training

Poko tradui

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

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Training Data

Poko tradui

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.

Sonje

An AI only knows what it was shown.

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Translate

Poko tradui

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

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Translation Tool

Poko tradui

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

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Transparency

Poko tradui

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

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Two-Factor Authentication

Poko tradui

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

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Underfitting

Poko tradui

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

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Unsupervised Learning

Poko tradui

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

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Voice Assistant

Poko tradui

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

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Watermark

Poko tradui

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

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Weight

Poko tradui

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

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Wrong Source

Poko tradui

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

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Your Brain Is the Boss™

Poko tradui

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