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What Is AI?

Unit 4 brings the year together: AI is a kind of computer that learns from examples. Across five 20–30 minute lessons, students teach Kai to tell groups apart by showing it examples, discover that more and better examples help it learn, see that AI can still make mistakes, and explore how AI helps people when we use it fairly and kindly.

📘 5 lessons · 20–30 min lessons📄 5 printable activities + certificate

The 5 lessons

  1. 1

    What Is AI?

    20–30 min

    Children learn AI is a computer that learns from examples — the very way they've been teaching Kai all year.

    Vocabulary: AI · learn · example · Kai

  2. 2

    AI Learns from Examples

    20–30 min

    Students teach Kai to tell two groups apart by showing it many examples, then watch it guess on its own.

    Vocabulary: example · learn · AI · Kai

  3. 3

    More Examples Help AI Learn

    20–30 min

    Kids discover that more and more varied examples help AI learn better and handle tricky new cases.

    Vocabulary: example · better · learn · AI · Kai

  4. 4

    AI Can Make Mistakes

    20–30 min

    Students learn AI isn't perfect — it can be wrong on confusing inputs — and that better examples help it improve.

    Vocabulary: mistake · AI · example · Kai

  5. 5

    AI Helps People (Review)

    20–30 min

    A review of how AI learns and where it can go wrong, plus how AI helps people when we use it fairly and kindly.

    Vocabulary: AI · help · fair · tool · Kai

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