Palavras da IA

Grandes ideias

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

Ser honesto

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

Tipos de IA

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Ser honesto

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Tipos de IA

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

Ser honesto

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

Fundamentos da IA

A machine that stores information and follows instructions very fast.

Quando a IA erra

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Ser honesto

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

Falar com a IA

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

Falar com a IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Grandes ideias

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.

Ser honesto

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

Segurança e privacidade

Scrambling information so only the right person can read it.

Quando a IA erra

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

Grandes ideias

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

Tipos de IA

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

Ser honesto

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

Grandes ideias

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Falar com a IA

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

Tipos de IA

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Grandes ideias

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

Tipos de IA

An AI that draws a picture from a written description.

Fundamentos da IA

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

Falar com a IA

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

Grandes ideias

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Tipos de IA

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

Grandes ideias

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

Fundamentos da IA

The physical or online device where the AI runs.

Como a IA aprende

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Grandes ideias

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

Ser honesto

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Ser honesto

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Fundamentos da IA

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

Falar com a IA

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

Tipos de IA

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Falar com a IA

The AI's reply to your prompt.

Falar com a IA

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

Tipos de IA

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

Falar com a IA

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Tipos de IA

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

Tipos de IA

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Fundamentos da IA

Instructions written for a computer. An app is software.

Ser honesto

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

Grandes ideias

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

Falar com a IA

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Falar com a IA

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

Falar com a IA

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Como a IA aprende

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.

Falar com a IA

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

Tipos de IA

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

Ser honesto

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

Segurança e privacidade

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Tipos de IA

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

Ser honesto

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

Como a IA aprende

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

Quando a IA erra

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

Grandes ideias

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