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How computers and AI learn. 32 skills from Grade 1 to Grade 6, each a short lesson in Star Steps that explains the idea first, then practises it.

Grade 1

5 skills · ages 6 to 7. Everything in Grade 1

  • What A Machine Ismachines follow instructions
  • Telling It What To Dogiving clear instructions
  • Sorting Thingssplitting a pile by a rule
  • Clever Guessingpatterns and predictions
  • Staying Safescreens, secrets and grown-ups
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Before a machine can help you, somebody first has to?

  • name it
  • walk it
  • build it
  • water it

Answer: build it

Grade 2

5 skills · ages 7 to 8. Everything in Grade 2

  • What Data Isfacts a machine can count
  • Spotting Patternswhat repeats, and what it means
  • Sensorshow machines notice things
  • Robotsmachines that act in the world
  • Is It Truechecking what a screen tells you
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Before data can be counted, it has to be?

  • sung
  • collected
  • buried
  • cooked

Answer: collected

Grade 3

5 skills · ages 8 to 9. Everything in Grade 3

  • Teaching A Machinelearning from examples
  • Pictures Are Numbershow a screen stores an image
  • Talking To Machinesspeech in and speech out
  • How It Choosesscores, not feelings
  • Keep It Privateyour data is yours
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The examples used for training are called the training?

  • hour
  • data
  • gate
  • room

Answer: data

Grade 4

5 skills · ages 9 to 10. Everything in Grade 4

  • What A Model Islearning, saved as numbers
  • Labels And Exampleswho supplies the right answers
  • When It Gets It Wronghow often, and how badly
  • Why It Suggests Thingsfeeds, autoplay and bubbles
  • Fair And Unfairwho a system works badly for
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A model is really a very large set of adjustable?

  • pictures
  • buttons
  • numbers
  • words

Answer: numbers

Grade 5

6 skills · ages 10 to 11. Everything in Grade 5

  • Neural Networkslayers, weights and loss
  • Training And Testingthe only honest exam
  • Language Modelspredicting the next word
  • Computer Visionmaking sense of pictures
  • Bias In Datawho was left out
  • Checking The Answerverify before you rely
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Early layers of an image network tend to detect simple things such as?

  • cars
  • names
  • words
  • edges

Answer: edges

Grade 6

6 skills · ages 11 to 12. Everything in Grade 6

  • Generative AImaking new text, pictures and sound
  • Asking Wellthe prompt is the control
  • What It Cannot Dothe honest edges
  • AI And Worktasks, not whole jobs
  • Rules And Consentpermission, and who answers for it
  • Deciding Togetherchoices, not inevitabilities
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AI that produces new text, pictures or sound rather than sorting existing ones is called?

  • generative
  • protective
  • selective
  • reflective

Answer: generative

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