wizard

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

A wizard is a part of the user interface in a system that helps a user confugure or otherwise adjust the system usually using simple question-answer or form-filling interactions. Wizards tend to be pre-programmed for very specific aspects of a system, but there is the potential for intelligent assistants to be far more flexible.

Used in Chap. 16: page 237