Table of Contents
Timeline
Intro: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Chapter 1: The Hunt for Hal: Early Forms of AI
Take a Turing Test. (Can be done with 2-3 people)
Try a chatbot (like Cleverbot)
“Code” the steps to play and win at Tic-Tac-Toe
Make a model of a neural net out of playdough and toothpicks
Play Conway’s “game of life” sim online or on paper
Chapter 2: Good Morning Alexis: AI Today
Play Go (or Chess) and write steps to play/win
Talk to Alexa (online version)
Write steps for a person to follow as if he/she were a robot
Explore Mars via simulated Curiosity rover (on JPL site)
Try a deep learning driven app (such as iNaturalist.org)
Watch video of life-like android such as Sophia (Hanson Robotics)
Chapter 3: AI in the Future
Watch or listen to AI created ‘art’
Experiment with Sound Net
Make a doodlebot
Do the original Three Wise Man test with friends
Chapter 4: Do We Need AI?
Watch DARPAs Robot Challenge and design own rescue robot
Design a robot to work alongside humans in space
Explore the uncanny valley and make your robotic face
Chapter 5: The Debate around AI
Read about debate between Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook) and Elon Musk (founder of Tesla and SpaceX) about AI. Then come up with your own argument!
Chapter 6: AI in SciFi
Write your own laws of robotics /AI
Write a short story or poem artificial intelligence 50 years from now.
Watch 2001 (or another twentieth-century movie about AI/robots). How has our view of AI changed?
Glossary
Resources
Index