Introducing AI
Introducing AI
Show slide four of Introducing AI, or show students the talking AI tool or app.
Tell them that this is a toy with AI, or “artificial intelligence.”
Ask them what they think that means. Let them share their thoughts, but don’t try to reach any sort of consensus or definition yet.
Show slide five and ask students:
- Did this AI toy choose its name?
- Can it choose what it says?
Students may disagree on the second point. Highlight two points: AIs seem to “decide” what to say, but they are also computer programs that were made by people.
Show slide six and ask:
- Who made the AI toy? (The people at the toy or app company.)
- Who gave it its name? (The people at the toy or app company.)
- Who chooses what it says?
Revisit the question from earlier about whether or not AIs can decide for themselves what to say. Ask students who they think has more control over what the AI says, the AI itself or the people who made it.
- How did they make Alvin?
Encourage students to share their ideas of how AI works and how an AI “decides” what to say or do.