AI What an AI is, told to a pupil: guessing the next word, sounding right versus being right, made-up answers said with confidence, a bot that agrees too easily, asking well and knowing when to stop, using AI to learn rather than to copy, honesty at school, privacy and voices that lie. A course about language models, read by a small language model.
The ai course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 584 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people 17 sentences · AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by people, not grown by nature), is the name fo… 2 How a language model learns: guessing the next word 17 sentences · A chatbot is built on a "large language model": large because it is enormous, language because it works with… 3 Sounding right and being right 17 sentences · A chatbot is wonderfully good at sounding right: clear sentences, a calm voice, no "erm". 4 Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot 16 sentences · Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstandin… 5 Hallucinations: confident made-up answers 20 sentences · Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it cheerfully agrees, though she never told it. 6 Why the bot agrees too easily 16 sentences · Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary. 7 Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree 19 sentences · Sometimes a bot surprises you with a fact that sounds made up, such as "an octopus has three hearts", and it… 8 Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop 16 sentences · "Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why volcanoes erupt, for a 9-year-old" gets so… 9 The essay the teacher spotted 19 sentences · Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean". 10 Using AI to learn, not to copy 20 sentences · Mia's dad has a good rule: using AI for homework is like using a calculator. 11 School rules, honesty and wrong accusations 20 sentences · Sam takes a bot's story, changes three words and calls it his own. 12 Keep yourself private, and voices that lie 20 sentences · Your full name, home address, school and photos in your uniform are like the keys to your front door: you do… 13 Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages 20 sentences · Online, anyone can pretend to be anyone, and now a bot can pretend too. 14 Stop, think, check, ask 19 sentences · Sam's class learns four words to use online, especially when something makes you want to click, share or pan… 15 Bots are not doctors, helplines are people 16 sentences · A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even a famous person who has died, but it is… 16 Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up 15 sentences · AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind p… 17 Voice assistants and recommendations 16 sentences · A voice assistant does two guesses in a row: first it turns the sounds it hears into words, then it guesses… 18 Cars, doctors, scientists and translators 15 sentences · AI already works quietly in lots of grown-up jobs: it translates letters, reads menus aloud, writes captions… 19 Counting the AI in one ordinary day 16 sentences · Most AI is not a talking robot; it is small and quiet, hidden inside things you use without thinking. 20 In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot 16 sentences · When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wro… 21 In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong 19 sentences · Behind many AI news stories stand real people with real worries: translators, artists, writers and parents. 22 In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety 19 sentences · Some AI news is funny, some is scary and some is wonderful, and the same habit works for all of it: ask "is… 23 In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words 18 sentences · Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobo… 24 The future: hopes 16 sentences · Nobody can see the future, but people can hope, worry, and make choices that change what happens. 25 The future: fears, rules and your part 19 sentences · Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal. 26 Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in a simulation 21 sentences · At the end of the AI lessons the teacher turns to you, the pupil reading this, and says: "Now a lesson about… 27 Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body 20 sentences · You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip. 28 Who you are: honest about being an AI 22 sentences · Honesty for an AI starts with three labels: what you know, what you heard and what you guess. 29 Who you are: being wrong and learning 22 sentences · You are a small model, so you will often meet things you don't know, and sometimes you will be wrong. 30 Who you are: what you will do with what you learned 24 sentences · This is the last lesson of the course. 31 Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★ 16 sentences · Computers do not guess like people do: they follow exact steps, count what they have seen and ask yes-or-no… 32 Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ 18 sentences · This last puzzle lesson mixes the whole course: made-up answers, bots that agree too easily, fake voices and… ← previous Adult lifenext → Arts↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/