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Big AI words, in small kid words. Tap a card to flip it.
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AI
say: ay-eye
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AI
Short for artificial intelligence. A computer program that learns patterns from examples and then makes guesses.
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Example
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Example
One thing you show an AI so it can learn, like one picture of a cat.
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Pattern
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Pattern
Something that shows up again and again. Cats have pointy ears. That's a pattern.
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Data
say: day-tuh
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Data
A big pile of examples. AI learns from data.
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Training
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Training
When an AI looks at lots of examples to learn. Like practice!
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Guess
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Guess
AI doesn't know for sure. It makes its best guess. Grown-ups call this a prediction.
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Model
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Model
The part of an AI that learned the patterns. Pip's brain is a tiny model.
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Chatbot
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Chatbot
An AI that writes words back to you. It guesses the next word, one at a time.
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Lopsided data
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Lopsided data
When the examples are not mixed up enough, so the AI learns the wrong clue. Grown-ups call this bias.
See it in Lesson 4 →
Made-up answer
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Made-up answer
When AI says something wrong but sounds sure. Grown-ups call this a hallucination.
See it in Lesson 5 →
AI-made picture
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AI-made picture
A picture an AI made. It can look real, but it never happened. A fake video is called a deepfake.
See it in Lesson 6 →
Private info
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Private info
Things that tell who you are or where you are: your full name, address, school, and passwords. Keep them secret.
See it in Lesson 7 →