Week 1 of 6 · 2.5-3 hours
What AI Is and Is Not
Tell artificial intelligence apart from ordinary software, and spot the AI already around you.
Big question: What makes something 'artificial intelligence' instead of ordinary software?
By the end of this week
- Define artificial intelligence and tell it apart from traditional software.
- Explain the difference between automation and machine learning.
- Trace input, rules, output, and learned patterns.
- Recognize everyday AI and the human decisions behind it.
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- AI or Not?Sort everyday technology into artificial intelligence and ordinary software, and learn the one question that tells them apart.
- Rules Versus Learned PatternsLook closely at automation and machine learning: when a person writes the rules, and when the software learns patterns from examples instead.
- Week 1 Device InvestigationInvestigate the devices and apps around you, map their inputs and outputs, and uncover the human decisions behind the AI features you rely on.