Getting Hands On - Training Your Own AI

Session Summary
Getting Hands On - Training Your Own AI

Students transform from AI consumers to AI creators in this empowering hands-on session.

Opening with the "Intelligent Piece of Paper" activity, where a paper plays perfect noughts and crosses, students discover that following algorithms differs from true intelligence.

The core experience involves training their own AI using Google's Teachable Machine, collecting data through webcam, labelling hand gestures, watching the AI train, and testing its accuracy.

Students observe confidence meters fluctuate and deliberately confuse the AI to understand its limitations.

Critical discussion explores how training data quantity and diversity affect performance, introducing concepts of bias and fairness.

The session concludes with students recognising they possess the power to create, customise, and control AI systems for their own purposes, moving beyond passive consumption to active creation.