How AI Learns: teacher key

Artificial Intelligence, grade 3 edition, written for 3rd grade. What is AI? See how AI learns from lots of examples, how a spam filter learns, and why a sure-sounding answer can still be wrong.

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Questions and answers

1. What are the things an AI learns from called?
   • Spam
   • Training data (answer)
   • Junk mail
2. What does a spam filter sort out?
   • Junk email (answer)
   • Phone calls
   • Pictures of dogs
3. An AI sounds very sure. What does that tell you?
   • Its answer is proof
   • It is right every time
   • It can still be wrong (answer)
4. What do people say AI helps phones know?
   • The words people say out loud (answer)
   • The weather
   • Who won the game
5. What should people do with what an AI tells them?
   • Trust it first
   • Check it before they trust it (answer)
   • Hide it

Words

• AI: smart machines
• examples: learning samples
• labeled: named by people
• spam: junk email