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Smart Machines: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. What is AI? Learn how a smart machine learns from examples, where people meet it, and why people should check what it tells them.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. What does AI help phones know?
    • The words people say out loud (answer)
    • The weather
    • How to cook
  2. What are the things an AI learns from called?
    • Spam mail
    • Training data (answer)
    • Junk labels
  3. What does a spam filter sort out?
    • Socks
    • Songs
    • Junk email (answer)
  4. An AI tells you something. What should you do?
    • Believe it at once
    • Check it (answer)
    • Never read it
  5. People have labeled a picture as a dog. What does labeled mean?
    • People named it a dog (answer)
    • It was thrown away
    • It was painted red

Words

  • AI: smart machines
  • predictions: guesses
  • data: learning information
  • spam: junk email