What is AI?

​What is AI? Understanding Artificial Intelligence

AI Literacy

What is AI?

• AI is all around us!

• AI helps computers learn and make decisions

• You already know more about AI than you think!

Poll

Have you ever used AI?

• Yes

• no

• I don't know

What Does AI Stand For?

AI is Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial: Made by humans (not natural)

Intelligence: The ability to learn, think, and solve problems

Together: Computer software that learns and makes decisions, just like people do!

Simple Definition: "AI is a computer that learns and gets smarter."

How Is AI Different from Regular Computers?

• Learns from examples

• Can change and improve

• Can make new decisions

• Can learn on its own

AI

• Does exactly what you tell it

• Follows one set of instructions

• Can't make new decisions

• Needs a human to program everything

Regular Computer

How Does AI Learn?

Step 1: AI looks at LOTS of examples

Step 2: AI finds patterns in those examples

Step 3: AI learns the rule or pattern

Step 4: AI uses what it learned to make predictions

Where Do We See AI?

Smart Speakers: Alexa, Google Home (they listen and understand words)

Phones: Face recognition, autocorrect, emoji suggestions

Games: Video game characters that play against you

Toys: Robots that learn and respond

Streaming: Netflix recommendations, YouTube suggestions

Hotspot

Click on all 4 pieces of technology that can use AI!

How Does AI Help Us?

Makes Life Easier: Autocorrect, recommendations, reminders

Keeps Us Safe: Security cameras, spam filters

Helps Doctors: Finding diseases in X-rays

Helps Teachers: Personalized learning suggestions

Helps Everyone: Translating languages, answering questions

Match

Match the AI tools to what they help us do.

Clean up

Help sick people

Help us go home

• Clean up

• Help sick people

• Help us go home

Does AI Have a Brain Like Me?

No! AI doesn't have a brain

AI has a network (inspired by how brains work, but made of code)

AI is software—it lives in computers and the internet

AI can't think or feel like you do

AI is a tool that humans created

Multiple Choice

Does AI have a brain like humans?

• Yes

• no

Can AI Do Everything?

No! AI has limits

• AI can only do what humans taught it to do

• AI needs lots of examples to learn

• AI can make mistakes

• AI needs humans to check its work

  Key Idea: AI is powerful, but humans are still in charge!

Let's Be AI Detectives!
Can you spot AI in these real-world scenarios?

Multiple Choice

Scenario 1: You're playing a video game. The character moves and tries to stop you.

Is this AI?

• No

• Yes

Multiple Choice

Scenario 2: You turn on your light switch. The light comes on.

Is this AI?

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Scenario 3: Your parent's phone recognizes their face to unlock.

Is this AI?

• Yes

• No

Categorize

Options (4)

Organize these options into the right categories

AI

Not AI

Match

Match the AI tool to what it does.

• Face Recognition

• Autocorrect

• YouTube

Unlocks a phone when it sees your face

Suggests videos you might like.

Suggests videos you might like.

• Unlocks a phone when it sees your face

• Suggests videos you might like.

• Suggests videos you might like.