Artificial Intelligence
Software that learns how to do something by finding patterns in huge amounts of examples — instead of following rules a person wrote out.
In practice
A chatbot answering a question nobody ever wrote a rule for.
Where students meet it
Artificial Intelligence is taught in the intro lesson, Welcome to AI Explorers, part of the Foundations unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Atlas is the guide for that lesson, and it is one of 8 terms in the unit.
Often mixed up with
- Algorithm
A set of steps written by a person to solve a problem. Steps like these can be clever without being AI — a calculator follows them.
More from Foundations
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KNOWING THE WORD IS THE START
Artificial Intelligence is one of 58 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.