The question: Which floor does each idea live on?
Each floor adds what the one below cannot do
AI is understood in four floors: the model, the harness, the agent, the organisation. To see it, all you have to do is follow one ordinary request and watch what each floor makes of it. Four contributions, none of them interchangeable.
The request« Book me a train to Lyon on Thursday morning. »It does not change from one floor to the next. What changes is what the floor makes of it.
Predict, equip, loop, govern: four contributions, none of them interchangeable. To place any idea in AI, ask which of those jobs it belongs to. Every entry in this glossary carries the badge of its floor: this infographic is the map.
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