Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us. Kids today already use AI in digital assistants like Alexa, for finding movie recommendations, and more. Future jobs of all kinds will require these critical skills.
In this class, kids learn what AI is and learn how AI works and how it learns. They learn about different AI algorithms and how to build, measure and improve them. They learn how the AIs they build are similar to real-world devices like Digital Assistants (Alexa/Siri, etc.) and Product Recommendations from companies like Netflix.
Students will learn to build different types of AI – to detect and predict categories (for example whether a person is Happy/Sad or Child/Adult), and to detect and predict values (such as teaching an AI to do Math). They will build AI projects to do each of these and learn the concepts behind them. Students will also do a custom project of their choice to build an AI system to solve a problem. They will showcase their project to their parents and peers on the last day of the class.
The core AI concepts they will learn are:
• To identify different types of algorithms (classification, regression) appropriate for different types of problems and data (text, numbers, categories and images).
•Learn how these are used in real life Ais, such as digital assistants, movie recommendation systems, facial recognition, etc.
• Train an AI system from raw data and use it to build cool applications.
• Learn how to improve an AI with better data.
• Learn how to measure and tune the performance of AIs to make them better, and how the AI algorithms learn patterns.
• Explore how AI compares to rule engines (can I beat an AI by writing rules?), and when to use
and not to use AI.
• Examine the difference between AI and Robotics.
By the end of the course, they will build several AIs of their own including a custom project. The course curriculum is designed by PhD AI experts with many years of real-world experience. Concepts are easy to understand, and fun and engaging for kids.
This course is taught by SchoolTribe in partnership with AI Club, an organization led by AI and software experts with PhDs from top-tier schools and many years of real-world experience.