Mission 1 of 3 · AI Builder
Teach the Machine
A machine cannot think like you. It only learns from the examples you give it. Teach it some critters, then test it!
AI Literacy · Ages 8+
How a machine learns
What you’ll learn
- Training data — machines learn from the examples we give them
- Classifying — sorting new things into groups from what it has seen
- More & better data usually makes predictions more accurate
- Bias — unfair examples lead to unfair mistakes
🎮 What you’ll do
- Tap critters to teach the machine — each one is an example
- Watch the map: coloured regions show what the machine now believes
- Press Test the machine to grade it on critters it has never seen
The machine's brain
Taught: 🟠 0 · 🔵 0Dots are your examples · dashed ★ is the machine's idea of each kind · coloured areas show what it would guess anywhere on the map.
Examples you can teach
Teach at least one of each kind, then test the machine.
Tap a critter to teach it to the machine (tap again to remove it). Every critter you teach is a piece of training data.
Real AI works a bit like this — it learns from huge amounts of examples. That is why it can be wrong, and why the examples it learns from need to be fair. Always check what a machine tells you.