A Living Lexicon of Artificial Intelligence
Stéphane Vial · Available October 13, 2026 · Foreword by Marcello Vitali-Rosati
I wrote a book about AI, with AI, and I explain how. Ninety-one concepts, one page each, to understand what artificial intelligence is and how it works.
As with any scholarly publication, every page was read and critically commented on by a peer. Marcello Vitali-Rosati, Full Professor at the Université de Montréal, took on that role and wrote the foreword.
But that is not all: I also produced and published this book with the help of AI, from the cover to the marketing, by way of the legal deposit. The last four pages tell how I went about it.
S.V., Montréal, October 2026
Three things to read on this site
- Eight excerpts
Artificial Intelligence · Neuron · Machine Learning · Natural Language Processing · Token · Hallucination · Recommender System · Agentic AI - The Making of This Book
How this book was conceived, written, checked, produced and published, without giving up any of my intellectual standards. - Statement on the Use of AI
“I did not write this book in spite of AI. I wrote it with AI.” The position I stand by.
The author
Stéphane Vial, Ph.D., is a Full Professor at the School of Design of the Université du Québec à Montréal, a regular researcher at the IUSMM Research Centre and the founder of Mentallys Inc. He holds a PhD in philosophy, a degree in clinical psychology and a habilitation to supervise research in design, and teaches, among other things, the use of artificial intelligence in research, writing and creative work.
The author of several books, including Being and the Screen: How the Digital Changes Perception (MIT Press), he explores how technologies transform our ways of perceiving, thinking and acting.
- About (in French): stephane-vial.net
- Published books (in French): stephane-vial.net/livres
- Blog on AI (in French): stephane-vial.net/blog
- Op-ed in Le Devoir (in French): La mort de l’auteur n’aura pas lieu à l’ère de l’IA
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The book
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Living Lexicon of Artificial Intelligence |
| Author | Stéphane Vial |
| Foreword | Marcello Vitali-Rosati |
| Translation | Translated from the French. Translation revised by Alexia Moyer |
| Publisher | Stéphane Vial, publisher · Montréal, Québec |
| Publication | October 13, 2026 (English edition) |
| Format | Paperback, 138 pages · ebook (ePub) |
| ISBN | 978-2-9825534-2-2 (paperback) · 978-2-9825534-3-9 (ebook) |
| Legal deposit | Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |