Tech That Thinks: Introduction to AI & Emerging Technology

Which of these is something computers help people do that is used to take much more time?

• Make new friends

• Feel emotions

• Process large amounts of information and do calculations very quickly

• Dream while sleeping

Artificial Intelligence is a type of technology that can learn from information to help complete certain tasks.

• True

• False

Maya asks her tablet's voice assistant what the weather is today and it answers correctly. What makes this possible?

• There is a tiny person hidden inside the tablet who looks up the answer

• The tablet uses AI and internet data to find the weather and say it out loud

• The tablet remembered the weather from yesterday

• Maya told it the answer before asking the question

Which type of job has technology changed the most in terms of how the work gets done each day?

• Cooking a meal at home for your family

• Factory assembly lines where machines now do tasks people used to do by hand

• Sleeping and resting

• Playing with a pet

A robot that helps sort recycling at a plant is an example of how technology changes the way people work.

• True

• False

Chloe uses an app that recommends new books based on the ones she has already read and enjoyed. What is the app most likely doing?

• Randomly picking books from a big list

• Using her reading history to suggest books she might enjoy

• Calling the library to ask for ideas

• Looking at what her teacher likes to read

Before GPS and smartphones, how did people usually figure out directions when driving somewhere new?

• They asked their car for directions

• They used paper maps or stopped to ask other people for help

• GPS was already built into every car

• People never went anywhere new or unfamiliar

Devon's dad says his job now uses software to help write reports faster. What is one positive effect of this?

• His dad will no longer have a job soon

• His dad can spend more time on the harder and more interesting parts of his work

• The software makes more mistakes than his dad does

• His dad now has to work longer hours every day

Technology always makes every single job completely disappear.

• True

• False

When Lily tells her family's smart speaker to play music and it starts playing, what is happening?

• A person at the company heard Lily and pressed play

• The speaker listened for a command, processed it using AI, and played the music

• The speaker randomly chose a song without listening

• The music was already chosen before Lily said anything