CS Field Guide: Artificial Intelligence
A short chapter from an online text for school students, including interactive elements. Focuses on the illusion of intelligence. Introduces chatbots, with and without machine learning, and the Turing Test. Free.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 7-8, 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Course or tutorial |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Digital systems, Impact and interactions |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI8P05
Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
AC9TDI8P06
Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
AC9TDI10P10
Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories, possible future impact and opportunities for enterprise |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Artificial Intelligence |
| Keywords | Artificial, Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Chatbots, Machine learning, Turing Test |
| Organisation | Computer Science Education Research Group, University of Canterbury |
| Copyright | © University of Canterbury. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0. |
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