Time: 10-20 minutes
Opening activity: drawings
- Draw something computers are better than people at doing
- Draw something people are better than computers at doing
- share pictures
- hold up pictures
- who sees something computers are better than people at doing?
- why are computers are better at that?
- who sees something humans are better than computers at doing?
- why are humans are better at that?
Discussion: Can computers think?
- What kinds of things can computers do well and what can they not do well?
- Will they ever do things that make them seem human?
- How could you tell if you were talking to a computer or a human?
- Students may say, because the voice will sound robotic.
- What about if you’re just typing text?
- What about if they learn to sound just like us? Could you tell they are computers by what they say?
- Students may say, because the voice will sound robotic.
- Does anyone know what it’s called when a computer can do things that humans are smart at doing?
- Explain term “artificial intelligence”
- “artificial”
- means something invented, like a technology
- opposite of “natural”
- “intelligence”
- means understanding things and being able use that understanding in a way that makes sense
- “artificial”
- Explain term “artificial intelligence”
- Discussion questions to prompt thought:
- Is a calculator intelligent?
- Is a camera intelligent if it can tell where the faces are?
- Is a dog intelligent if it can tell you’re friendly?
- How could artificial intelligence malfunction?