AI Glossary — A Living Document
Welcome to the Creative Powerup AI Glossary — a living, evolving collection of terms designed to help creatives understand and skillfully apply artificial intelligence to amplify their projects. Whether you’re exploring generative tools, learning AI fundamentals, or deepening your fluency, this glossary defines key concepts in accessible language. It’s your companion on the journey into AI-powered creativity.
This glossary has two forms — 1) The AI Glossary Bot, which enables you to quickly fetch definitions in a chat format, and 2) The AI Glossary Dynamic Knowledge Base, which is the underlying data that the Glossary Bot references.
Whether you’re exploring generative AI, machine learning, prompt engineering, or agentic AI systems, this glossary will help you build confidence with key artificial intelligence concepts — all tailored for the creative mind.
This is a living doc, which is being constantly updated. If you’d like to suggest additional terms, please add them in the comments below.
AI Glossary Bot
AI Glossary — Dynamic Knowledge Base
Why a Living Glossary Matters
The world of artificial intelligence is not static — it evolves daily, reshaped by breakthroughs, experiments, and ethical questions. As creatives, we aren’t just passive observers of this evolution; we’re active participants.
That’s why the Creative Powerup AI Glossary is designed as a living document. It’s not simply a dictionary; it’s a reflective tool, growing alongside your own creative practice. New terms, new frameworks, and new ethical considerations will continually emerge — and this glossary will evolve to meet them.
By staying connected to an evolving glossary, you’re not just learning definitions. You’re cultivating fluency in a language that is redefining creativity itself.
We invite you to co-create this resource by suggesting terms, asking questions, and sharing insights. Together, we can ensure that our understanding of AI remains as dynamic, imaginative, and human-centered as the technologies we explore.
AI Glossary — Featured Terms
| Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) | A hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence in every domain — cognitive, creative, and emotional. |
| Distributed Intelligence | A view of intelligence as something that lives across networks — among people, systems, environments, and tools — rather than inside individual minds. Recognizing this helps us build collaborative systems more wisely. |
| Extended Mind |
A way of understanding intelligence as something that extends beyond the brain — into tools, environments, and relationships that support thinking, creativity, and decision-making. In the context of Creative Powerup, it describes how AI, when used consciously, becomes part of a creator’s cognitive process, enhancing insight, imagination, and self-evolution. |
| Human-in-the-Loop | Keeping humans involved in AI decision-making. |
| ReAct | A prompt method that mixes reasoning and action steps. |
AI Glossary — Suggest Additional Terms
As a living document, this glossary will evolve as AI technology evolves… and as Creative Powerup evolves with it. It’s meant to support every creator on their journey with AI by putting the definitions of key terms at their fingertips.
If you spot any missing terms, please suggest them as comments below. Thanks in advance for your help keeping it updated!
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