Glossary French

Automaton: is a self-operating machine. Is a conceptual model. Type of automata.

Cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning.

Digital Computer: is the only device that has been used to achieve any significant of artificial intelligence.

Intelligence: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience. The intelligence is as a natural phenomenon appering in living organisms, especially man, or is an arbitrarily specified set of abilities.


Intelligent Behavior: is as duplicated by the current approach to AI, namely by discomposing a given problem into a sequence of simple tasks or sub problems that can be precisely stated and solved.


Learning: the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge. Refers to concerted activity that increases the capacity and willingness of individuals, groups, organizations and communities to acquire and productively apply new knowledge and skills, to grow and mature and to adapt successfully to changes and challenges.

Mechanical Reasoning: tests measure your knowledge of straightforward mechanical and physical concepts. They do not measure your underlying mechanical aptitude in the same way that abstract reasoning questions measure your underlying intellectual ability.

Mind: the seat of the faculty of reason. The human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.


Paradigm: is a popular model for explaining the reasoning ability of the human mind. A paradigm is an overall approach for dealing with a class of problems.


Understanding: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination. the cognitive condition of someone who understands. Example: the computer starts with the key elements of its later understanding, since the programmer has provided the model of choosing heads or tails based on the statistics of the opponent is previous four-move patterns.