Bayesian Reasoning

Fuzzy Logic

A form of logic that handles approximate reasoning, allowing variables to have degrees of truth rather than strict binary true/false values.

Heuristic Search

Problem-solving techniques that use practical rules of thumb to find satisfactory solutions when exhaustive search is impractical.

State Space Search

A method of problem-solving that represents all possible states of a system and searches for a path from initial to goal state.

Constraint Satisfaction

A computational approach where problems are defined as a set of variables, domains, and constraints that must all be simultaneously satisfied.

Planning Algorithm

An AI algorithm that generates a sequence of actions to achieve a specified goal from an initial state.

Forward Chaining

An inference strategy that starts with known facts and applies rules to derive new conclusions until a goal is reached.

Backward Chaining

An inference strategy that starts with a goal and works backward through rules to determine what facts must be true.

Abductive Reasoning

A form of logical inference that seeks the simplest and most likely explanation for a set of observations.

The process of using a trained AI model to make predictions or decisions on new, unseen data.

A theoretical level of AI that surpasses human cognitive abilities across all domains, including creativity and social intelligence.

The practice of making AI systems' operations, data usage, and decision processes openly visible to stakeholders.

The ability to describe AI decision-making processes in human-understandable terms, enabling trust and regulatory compliance.

AI designed to handle specific tasks without possessing self-awareness, consciousness, or true understanding of the task domain.

Area Under the ROC Curve, a single metric summarising a classifier's ability to distinguish between classes.

The principle of ensuring AI systems make equitable decisions without discriminating against any group based on protected attributes.

A metric for evaluating the quality of machine-generated text by comparing it to reference translations or texts.