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Glossary

This glossary collects the key terms introduced in each chapter. The reference in parentheses indicates where the term is first defined. Terms are added as chapters are published.

  • AI Fundamentals (About This Book): the foundational level of study at which the learner develops the concepts and judgment required to understand AI before using it professionally or building systems with it.
  • Baseline for comparison (Chapter 1): the reference point (here, human intelligence) against which something new (here, AI) is described and judged.
  • Collective intelligence (Chapter 1): the knowledge and capability that emerge when people communicate and cooperate, exceeding what any individual could achieve alone.
  • Fundamentals (About This Book): the essential principles, concepts, and basic skills that form the foundation of a subject, system, or practice.
  • Human intelligence (Chapter 1): the natural human capacity to perceive, learn, reason, feel, imagine, make decisions, solve problems, and adapt through experience.
  • Intelligence cycle (Chapter 1): the continuous sequence of perceiving, interpreting, remembering, reasoning, deciding, acting, and learning through which human intelligence operates.