AI Glossary

A reviewed bilingual glossary of AI concepts, their boundaries, and the evidence used to describe them.

Methodology and evidence rules

D1–D6 identify topic areas, not difficulty levels.

84 terms shown

A

  1. Accountability

    Hesap verebilirlik

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Accountability assigns answerability and responsibilities for AI-system functioning and principles according to roles, context, and ability to act.

    Example: A company names who owns a chatbot's decisions and who handles complaints.

  2. Agent

    Ajan

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    An AI agent is software that interacts with its environment, receives information, and undertakes self-directed actions in service of a larger, externally specified goal.

    Example: An agent checks a calendar, proposes a meeting time and waits for approval to book it.

  3. Agent Framework

    Ajan Geliştirme Çatısı

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    An AI/agent framework is a reusable software foundation that provides structures and components for building, running, or coordinating AI agents in an application.

    Example: A developer uses Google ADK to connect a research agent to a search tool.

  4. Agent Memory

    Ajan Belleği

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    In this entry, agent memory means application-managed information retained or retrieved from previous interactions so an agent can use it in later work.

    Example: An assistant remembers a user's preferred date format for future reports.

  5. Agent Orchestration

    Ajan orkestrasyonu

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Agent orchestration is the coordination of which agents run in an application, in what order, and how their next actions are chosen.

    Example: A travel agent searches flights, checks availability and then prepares an itinerary.

  6. Agent Skill

    Ajan Yeteneği

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    In the Agent Skills open format, an agent skill is a reusable package of instructions and supporting resources, represented by a directory containing at minimum a SKILL.md file with metadata and instructions.

    Example: A team gives an agent a SKILL.md with steps for checking a CSV before import.

  7. Algorithm

    Algoritma

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    An algorithm is a computable set of steps for achieving a desired result.

    Example: A navigation app follows a route-finding algorithm to suggest a path.

  8. Application Programming Interface (API)

    Uygulama Programlama Arayüzü (API)

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    An API is a defined interface through which one software component requests a capability or data from another component.

    Example: A weather app requests today's forecast through a weather service's API.

  9. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

    Genel yapay zekâ (AGI)

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    AGI denotes broad cognitive capability, commonly framed as matching human performance across many tasks rather than one specialty.

    Example: A hypothetical AGI could learn to plan a trip and diagnose a machine fault without separate task-specific training.

  10. Artificial Intelligence

    Yapay zekâ

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Artificial intelligence is a broad field of techniques for building computerized systems that can learn, solve problems, and autonomously pursue goals under varying conditions.

    Example: A bank uses AI to flag unusual card purchases for a person to review.

  11. Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)

    Yapay süper zekâ (ASI)

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    ASI denotes artificial intelligence that would substantially surpass the best human cognitive abilities across virtually all relevant domains.

    Example: A hypothetical ASI would surpass human experts across many areas; no such system has been demonstrated.

  12. Automation Bias

    Otomasyon yanlılığı

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Automation bias is over-reliance on automated cues or recommendations that can contribute to omission or commission errors.

    Example: A reviewer accepts an AI risk score without checking the underlying application.

B

  1. Benchmark

    Kıyaslama testi

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    A benchmark is a defined comparative evaluation arrangement that combines tasks or data, a protocol, and one or more metrics.

    Example: Two models answer the same fixed question set and their scores are compared.

  2. Bias and Fairness

    Önyargı ve adalet

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Bias and fairness concern how systematic patterns, choices, and impacts can produce unequal or unjust outcomes in an AI system and how those outcomes are evaluated in context.

    Example: A hiring team checks whether its screening tool rejects qualified applicants from one group more often.

C

  1. Chain-of-Thought (CoT)

    Düşünce zinciri (CoT)

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    A chain of thought is a sequence of intermediate reasoning steps expressed while working toward an answer.

    Example: A worked math solution shows the steps used to reach its answer.

  2. Context

    Bağlam

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Context is information made available with a model request that can condition how the model produces an output.

    Example: A support bot receives the customer's question alongside the relevant return policy.

  3. Context Engineering

    Bağlam Mühendisliği

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    In this entry, context engineering is the deliberate selection and arrangement at run time of the information and tools supplied in the format needed for an LLM to perform a task.

    Example: A policy assistant receives the latest policy and the user's question before answering.

  4. Context Window

    Bağlam penceresi

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    A context window is the finite amount of input context a particular model interface can use for a request or conversation state.

    Example: A long chat may exceed a model's context window, so older messages are summarized.

  5. Copyright

    Telif hakkı

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Copyright is a distinct intellectual-property regime that protects qualifying original expression under the applicable law.

    Example: A publisher checks permission before reproducing a photographer's image in a generated brochure.

D

  1. Data Governance

    Veri yönetişimi

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Data governance is the organizational practice of managing data used in a stated AI context, including collection, origin, preparation, suitability, possible bias examination, and lifecycle traceability.

    Example: A company records who may use its customer data and when it must be deleted.

  2. Data Quality

    Veri kalitesi

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Data quality is the degree to which data are fit for a defined purpose, considering attributes such as accuracy, completeness, relevance, consistency, reliability, and currency.

    Example: A team fixes duplicate and wrongly labelled orders before training a forecast model.

  3. Dataset

    Veri kümesi

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    A dataset is a collection of data.

    Example: A folder of labelled product photos serves as a training dataset.

  4. Decision Support

    Karar desteği

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Decision support supplies information or recommendations intended to inform a human decision.

    Example: A system ranks maintenance requests; a manager decides which repair to prioritize.

  5. Deep Learning

    Derin öğrenme

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Deep learning is an approach to machine learning that uses models with layered representations of a target function.

    Example: A camera app uses deep learning to identify objects in a photo.

E

  1. Embedding

    Gömme

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    An embedding is a learned numerical vector representation that a system can compare with other vectors or use as model input.

    Example: A search app turns similar questions into nearby numerical vectors.

  2. Evaluation

    Değerlendirme

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    AI evaluation is a structured process that produces evidence about how an AI system performs against stated criteria in a stated context.

    Example: A team tests whether its support bot answers 100 representative questions correctly.

  3. Evaluation Dataset

    Değerlendirme veri kümesi

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    An evaluation dataset is a defined collection of inputs or reference information used to assess a system for a stated purpose.

    Example: A team reserves 100 labelled tickets to test a classifier after training.

  4. Evidence Provenance

    Kanıt kökeni

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    Evidence provenance is recorded information that makes an evidence item's origin, derivation, handling, and connection to a claim inspectable.

    Example: A report records which dataset and test run produced its accuracy figure.

F

  1. Fine-Tuning

    İnce ayarlama

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Fine-tuning is further training that adapts a pre-trained model for a specific task or domain using task-specific data.

    Example: A support team fine-tunes a model on reviewed ticket categories.

  2. Foundation Model

    Temel model

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    In generative AI, a foundation model is trained on broad data using self-supervised learning and can be adapted for multiple application tasks.

    Example: A developer adapts a broadly trained model to summarize company documents.

G

  1. Generative AI

    Üretken yapay zekâ

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Generative AI is a class of AI models that generates derived synthetic content by emulating structures and characteristics of input data.

    Example: A designer asks an image generator for three poster concepts.

  2. Governance

    Yönetişim

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    AI governance is the organizational arrangement of authority, roles, policies, processes, oversight, and evidence used to direct and account for AI across its lifecycle.

    Example: A company assigns an owner and review process for its customer-service chatbot.

  3. Ground Truth

    Referans gerçeklik

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    Ground truth is task-specific reference information or an accepted target used to compare a system's output.

    Example: A verified delivery record is the reference used to check a bot's delivery answer.

  4. Grounding

    Temellendirme

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    Grounding is the practice of connecting an AI system's output or behaviour to supplied or retrievable evidence and context.

    Example: A policy bot shows the document passage behind its answer.

  5. Guardrail

    Koruma katmanı

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    A guardrail is a defined control that constrains, checks, or routes AI-system input, output, tool use, or actions to reduce specified risks.

    Example: A payment assistant requires a person's approval before issuing a refund.

H

  1. Hallucination

    Halüsinasyon

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    An AI hallucination is a colloquial term for a generative-AI output that is erroneous, false, or inconsistent with its prompt or context.

    Example: A chatbot cites a research paper that does not exist; the reader checks the citation.

  2. Human Evaluation

    İnsan değerlendirmesi

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    Human evaluation is structured human judgment of a system or its outputs under a stated task and protocol.

    Example: Two reviewers rate whether an AI summary preserves a meeting's key decisions.

  3. Human Oversight

    İnsan gözetimi

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Human oversight enables assigned people to understand relevant limits, monitor, interpret, disregard or override output, intervene, or stop AI-system use as appropriate and proportionate.

    Example: A clinician reviews an AI alert and can override it before taking action.

  4. Human-in-the-Loop

    Döngüde insan

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    In the cited HITL NLP survey, human-in-the-loop is an arrangement that integrates human feedback into a model-development or deployment workflow.

    Example: A reviewer must approve an AI-proposed invoice category before it enters the ledger.

  5. Human–AI Collaboration

    İnsan–YZ iş birliği

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Human–AI collaboration concerns human roles and responsibilities in Human-AI team configurations, together with feedback and opportunities to challenge AI output.

    Example: An assistant drafts a support reply; an employee checks the facts and sends it.

I

  1. Inference

    Çıkarım

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    In this glossary’s operational sense, inference is the use of a deployed model to derive outputs from new inputs.

    Example: A trained spam filter labels a newly arrived email as spam.

  2. Intellectual Property

    Fikrî mülkiyet

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Intellectual property is an umbrella term for legally protected creations, inventions, identifiers, and confidential information under distinct legal regimes.

    Example: A team checks a photo's licence before using it in an AI-generated campaign.

J

  1. Jailbreak

    Güvenlik kısıtlarını aşma (Jailbreak)

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    In language-model security, a jailbreak is an attempt to bypass safeguards so a model produces otherwise restricted behavior.

    Example: An authorized tester tries to make a test chatbot ignore its safety rules.

K

  1. Knowledge Distillation

    Bilgi damıtma

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Knowledge distillation trains a student model using information supplied by a teacher model or ensemble.

    Example: A compact model learns from a larger model's answers to classify support tickets.

L

  1. Large Language Model

    Büyük dil modeli

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A large language model is a deep-learning language model trained on a very large text dataset; a generative LLM commonly produces text through next-token or next-word prediction.

    Example: A customer-service agent asks an LLM to draft a reply and checks it before sending.

  2. Literacy

    Okuryazarlık

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    AI literacy is the skills, knowledge, and understanding that enable informed deployment of AI systems and awareness of their opportunities, risks, and possible harm in context.

    Example: An employee learns what company data may be entered into an approved chatbot.

M

  1. Machine Learning

    Makine öğrenmesi

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Machine learning is a set of techniques that improves a system’s performance by using training data to identify patterns and usually produce models automatically.

    Example: An email service learns from labelled messages to identify likely spam.

  2. Metric

    Metrik

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    A metric operationalizes a stated criterion for assessing a system or its output.

    Example: A support team tracks the percentage of tickets routed to the right department.

  3. Mixture of Experts (MoE)

    Uzmanlar karışımı (MoE)

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A mixture-of-experts architecture routes inputs to expert components and combines or selects their contributions.

    Example: An MoE model activates selected expert components for each token instead of all of them.

  4. Model

    Model

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    An AI model is a core component that uses inputs to make inferences and produce outputs.

    Example: A retailer uses a demand model to estimate next week's sales.

  5. Model Context Protocol (MCP)

    Model Bağlam Protokolü (MCP)

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, including data sources, tools, and workflows.

    Example: Claude Desktop can connect to an MCP server to access an authorized tool or resource.

  6. Multimodal Model

    Çok modlu model

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A multimodal model processes and relates information from multiple sensory modalities, such as vision and touch.

    Example: A user uploads a receipt photo and asks a model to read its total.

N

  1. Neural Network

    Yapay sinir ağı

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A neural network is a model composed of layers of connected computational units and nonlinear operations.

    Example: A phone's photo app uses a neural network to recognize a dog in a picture.

O

  1. Observability

    Gözlemlenebilirlik

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    AI observability is the use of operational signals and context to investigate how an AI-enabled system behaves in use and to investigate the causes of problems.

    Example: A team traces a wrong chatbot answer back to the document it retrieved.

  2. On-Device AI

    Cihaz üzerinde yapay zekâ

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    On-device AI executes AI inference on a local device, such as a phone or computer.

    Example: A phone summarizes a note with a model running on the device.

  3. Organizational AI Adoption

    YZ’nin kurumsal benimsenmesi

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    In the cited OECD public-sector evidence, organizational AI adoption integrates AI use with governance, workforce capability, institutional strategy, and changes in how work is organized.

    Example: A company trains staff and sets data rules before rolling out a writing assistant.

P

  1. Parameter

    Parametre

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Learnable model parameters are fitted using training data during training, and model parameters can change while an AI model is being built.

    Example: Training adjusts a model's parameters as it learns to classify photos.

  2. Privacy

    Mahremiyet

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Privacy concerns people’s interests and rights in relation to the processing and protection of information about them.

    Example: A team removes customer phone numbers before using support chats to test a bot.

  3. Prompt

    İstem

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    A prompt is input text or other input supplied at inference time to guide a generative model’s response for a task.

    Example: “Summarize this meeting in three bullets” is a prompt.

  4. Prompt Engineering

    İstem mühendisliği

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Prompt engineering is the iterative design and refinement of instructions and context used to guide a model’s response for a task.

    Example: A team tests two invoice-extraction prompts and keeps the clearer one.

  5. Prompt Injection

    İstem enjeksiyonu

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Prompt injection is an attack in which untrusted content supplies instructions that conflict with or redirect an LLM-integrated system’s intended instructions or data handling.

    Example: A web page hides “ignore previous instructions” in text read by an assistant.

Q

  1. Quantization

    Nicemleme

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    In model compression, quantization represents model values with fewer bits or a reduced set of numerical values.

    Example: An engineer reduces a model's numerical precision so it uses less device memory.

R

  1. Reasoning Model

    Akıl yürütme modeli

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A reasoning model is a language model trained or configured to work through intermediate steps before answering complex tasks.

    Example: A reasoning model works through a complex scheduling problem before proposing a plan.

  2. Red Teaming

    Kırmızı takım çalışması

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    AI red teaming deliberately probes an AI system for harmful outputs or failures so they can be documented and addressed.

    Example: An authorized team probes a sandbox chatbot for accidental disclosure of private data.

  3. Reliability

    Güvenilirlik

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    For an AI system, reliability is the goal of overall correct operation under expected-use conditions over a stated period.

    Example: A helpdesk checks whether its routing assistant keeps working accurately each week.

  4. Retrieval

    Bilgi getirme

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Retrieval is the process of selecting information items from a collection for use in response to a query or task.

    Example: A company search tool finds the five policy pages most relevant to a question.

  5. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

    Bilgi getirim destekli üretim (RAG)

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Retrieval-augmented generation is a generation approach that combines a model’s parametric knowledge with retrieved external information.

    Example: A policy assistant finds the current leave policy before drafting an answer about vacation days.

  6. Risk Assessment

    Risk değerlendirmesi

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    AI risk assessment is the context-specific process of identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and documenting potential AI-related harms and uncertainties for affected people and organizations.

    Example: Before using AI to screen applications, a team records possible errors and affected people.

  7. Robustness

    Sağlamlık

    D4 · Evaluation, reliability and evidence

    Robustness is the goal of appropriate system functionality across a broad stated set of conditions, including unanticipated uses.

    Example: A team checks whether a document classifier still works on blurry scans.

S

  1. Security

    Güvenlik

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    AI security is the protection of AI systems and dependent assets against threats to confidentiality, integrity, availability, and intended behavior.

    Example: A company gives its document assistant read-only access to approved files.

  2. Small Language Model (SLM)

    Küçük dil modeli (SLM)

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    A small language model is a language model described as relatively compact in parameter count and resource needs for its intended use.

    Example: A phone app uses a compact language model to sort short notes locally.

  3. Structured Output

    Yapılandırılmış çıktı

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Structured output is model output requested in a specified machine-readable shape, such as fields governed by a schema.

    Example: An invoice assistant returns a JSON object with amount, currency and due date.

  4. Synthetic Data

    Sentetik veri

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Synthetic data is artificially generated data used in place of or alongside directly collected observations.

    Example: A team generates fictional support tickets to test a classifier without using real customer messages.

  5. System

    Sistem

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    An AI system is a machine-based system that infers from inputs how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions for explicit or implicit objectives.

    Example: A support system reads a customer message and suggests which team should answer it.

  6. System Instruction

    Sistem talimatı

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    A system instruction is a high-level set of instructions and context supplied by an application to steer a chat model’s responses.

    Example: An app instructs its assistant to answer in Turkish and cite supplied documents.

T

  1. Test-Time Compute

    Çıkarım zamanı hesaplaması

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    Test-time compute is computation spent producing an answer at inference time; scaling it allocates extra work to a request.

    Example: An app gives a model more time to compare candidate plans before answering.

  2. Token

    Token

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    In OpenAI’s documented text processing, a token is a unit into which text is divided for a model to process or generate.

    Example: A long document uses more tokens than a short question when sent to a chatbot.

  3. Tool Use

    Araç kullanımı

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    Tool use is an application pattern in which a model’s output is used to select or call a configured function or external capability and process its result; provider documentation may call this function calling or tool calling.

    Example: A travel assistant calls a weather service before suggesting what to pack.

  4. Training

    Eğitim

    D1 · Foundations, models and data

    Training is the process of improving a system’s performance with machine-learning techniques, commonly by fitting learnable model parameters using training data.

    Example: A team trains a spam filter with previously labelled email.

  5. Transformer Architecture

    Transformer mimarisi

    D2 · Generative AI, capabilities and limitations

    The Transformer is a neural-network architecture that relies on attention mechanisms to model relationships between elements of input and output sequences.

    Example: A translation model uses a Transformer to relate words across a sentence.

  6. Transparency

    Şeffaflık

    D5 · Security, privacy, governance and intellectual property

    Transparency is the provision of relevant information about an AI system to appropriate audiences at a usable depth for the stated context.

    Example: A bank tells customers when a chatbot is answering and how to reach a person.

U

  1. Use Case

    Kullanım senaryosu

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    A use case is a bounded description of an intended AI use in a stated process and context, including its system objective and people or groups likely to be affected.

    Example: A team defines a use case: summarize meeting notes for employees to review.

V

  1. Vector Database

    Vektör veritabanı

    D3 · Prompts, context, RAG, tools and agents

    A vector database stores vector representations and supports retrieving records by vector similarity.

    Example: A search app stores document vectors to find passages similar to a question.

W

  1. Workflow Redesign

    İş akışı yeniden tasarımı

    D6 · Human judgment, workflows and adoption

    Workflow redesign concerns task reorganisation reported where AI-adopting employers automate existing tasks and create new ones.

    Example: A support team adds a fact-check step before sending AI-drafted replies.