{"id":3577,"date":"2018-04-25T00:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2018-04-25T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:32:52","slug":"explaining-artificial-intelligence-to-high-school-students-at-ibmaotthink2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"Explaining artificial intelligence to high school students at #IBMAoTTHINK2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the annual IBM Academy of Technology STEM event<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The annual IBM AoT SkillsBuild: STEM event inspires high school students to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Math with live presentations, lightning videos, and hands-on activity kits from IBM Volunteers. It explores how innovation matters in a wide array of industries with fun, cool demonstrations. Train a computer to play its own video game. Play a table top space exploration game with Quantum computing. Build an emotionally empathetic Chatbot with IBM Watson. Protect yourself from cyberbullying. Learn about an Escape room on cybersecurity, and more!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was a fascinating line-up of talks<\/a> to educate and inspire the kids. Kids attend in person, and also by watching the talks from their schools via a livestream – allowing thousands of kids to get involved. <\/p>\n

I was invited to do a fifteen-minute talk to explain artificial intelligence to the students. Unfortunately, I couldn\u2019t make it in person, so I had to resort to contributing a presentation by video for the livestream. <\/p>\n

Here was my talk… an attempt to try and help AI make sense to kids, by talking them through machine learning projects<\/a> that I’ve helped children to make. <\/p>\n