Glossary

Intersectional AI A-to-Z
This glossary of terms for Intersectional AI A-to-Z is a great place to get started. By all means it's only one example of definitions for these complex ideas, and it is meant as an open invitation for conversations and amendments! These concepts show the complexity of the topic seen from multiple angles; yet it is so important to try to break down these concepts into plain language in order to offer more openings for folks to join these conversations. Please chime in, ask questions, help make these definitions better!

via Elements of AI:

&quot;When defining and talking about AI we have to be cautious as many of the words that we use can be quite misleading. Common examples are learning, understanding, and intelligence. [...]

AI terms are easy to mix up. AI is a subset of the field of computer science. Within it, machine learning is the technique that is commonly used currently and which includes a variety of practices within it, like neural networks and deep learning, much of which is discussed here. Almost all of these make use of work from data science, a separate but highly related field.

A | artificial intelligence | artificial intelligence B | bias &amp; variance | bias (implicit) C | confidence interval | code of conduct D | data cleaning | '''data colonialism  E | explainability''' | embodiment? / (digital) epidermalization? / emotion? / ethical AI (for public good etc) F | feature extraction | FLOSS''' G | GANs | ???? H | hyperparameter| heteronormative I | information (signal/noise, Shannon) | information(situated, embodied) ..and or intelligence J | Javascript | Justice, transformative K | k-means, KNN''' | Kimberlé Crenshaw? L | loss function | Lovelace et al M | machine learning / Markov chain | makerspace / materiality N | neural net | nonbinary O | overfitting &amp; underfitting | othering P | Python / parameter / pattern recognition | privacy (GDPR?) / power Q | quantification (quantifier) | queer (theory) R | regression vs classification | race (as a technology) &amp; racialization S | supervised vs unsupervised | sustainability / situated / standpoint theory T | transformer/transfer learning | trans rights (turing test) / transfeminism / transhuman* U | uncertainty | unknowability V | value/variable / variance / vision | value?? W | (bag-of-)words (w nlp) | white supremacy / white feminism X | &quot;x&quot; as input? | xenofeminism Y | &quot;y&quot; as output? | ?yt-ness ? Z | ???? | zines PRINT THIS | See Side One | See Side Two

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