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Agenda
Journal Entry (15 minutes)
Differentiation between humans and computers (95 minutes)
A simple model of machine learning (55 minutes)
Assessment
Complete journal entry at beginning of class -
Complete CS Unplugged Activity 20: Conversations with Computers—The Turing Test.
Interact with web-based chatterbots (Part I of The Computer Intelligence Activity).
In groups, play several rounds of a guessing game (Part II of The Computer Intelligence Activity).
Journal Writing: What are the advantages of using Web 2.0 tools to produce academic works and how can it help
us in our teaching and learning?
Questions and Answers
Classroom discussion
Essential Question
What is intelligence and what is the difference of human intelligence versus computer intelligence?
Warm-up Time: 10
Have students write the EQ, Objective and Word Wall in their writing journals.
Journal Entry: What is intelligence? Are computers intelligent? Why or why not?
This activity explores just how we might recognize whether a system is truly "intelligent". It involves reasoning about
what it means to be intelligent, and even what makes us human.
PART 2 - Check out Eliza, a non-intelligent production system created in the 1960's which acts as if it was intelligent
using canned responses and string substitutions. Many people at that time thought Eliza was human. Why do you
think they thought that way? That Eliza was intelligent?
Part 3 - Play The Animal Guessing Game - Think of an animal and see if the computer program "knows" or guesses
Part 4 - See AI (Artificial Intelligence) at work. Play 20 Questions with the computer. Is the computer intelligent?
OR TIC TAC TOE and read about this AI game before you play!
Chat bots
1- Human emotion.
2 - The ability to create it's own data associations in order to make decisions and differentiate between true and
false.
3 - Self-consciousness, which involves identity, a track of time, and a sense of the world around you. We have 5
senses and a sense of time, and a sense of who we think we are or might become.
4 - Creativity and imagination, something that will probably be the last thing to be implemented properly.
( ) Some people do not understand why we even have them; some even try to hide them most of the time. The
reality is, it is an evolutionary trait that makes us have a purpose in life. Without it, we would not reproduce,
complete our daily tasks, or interact with other humans. An artificially intelligent machine would still only be a
simple calculator without it. Ability to Create Data Associations and Decide
( ) It is what's important with AI. Computer programs need to find ways to adapt and collect all data available to
connect ideas. Most likely many of these things will be accomplished once natural language and communication is
understood by AI developers.
( ) This is probably the hardest things to create. However, I think it is based on things we've already know and seen,
then minor variations on those ideas, and since everything is very related anything is possible.
Answer key: Human emotion, the ability to create its own data association, creativity and imagination.
2. Do you think robots will be so perfect in the future that they will become part of the family? Why?
3. Will robots ever have emotions? Will they be able to fall in love, for example?
4. What about people? Will they be able to fall in love with robots?
5. What is the future of robots? How present will they be in our lives?
Extension Activity
Links to artificial intelligence games:
http://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1axvps/looking_for_to_links_to_artificial_intelligence/
Computer Science Unplugged Activity 20: Conversations with Computers—The Turing Test, p. 225—questions (one
copy for each pair of students)
Computer Science Unplugged Activity 20: Conversations with Computers—The Turing Test, p. 226—answers (one
copy to post or display)