Everything AI works with stunning accuracy.

General Overview

Mrs. Johnson is a former Computer Science teacher that taught at Kealing Middle School for 22 years. She introduced AI into her curriculum in 2017, as she wants it to be a more commonly taught topic. She thinks that learning about AI can help a lot of people, and that it’s interesting, because she says “[AI] is a huge discontinuity in intellectual development of mankind.”

“I think that [AI is] gonna change so many things we don’t even know, we have some ideas of what things can change. But I don’t think we even have an idea of what is going to change. So I think it’s massively disruptive. And, let’s hope in a good way.” -

Anita Johnson

It’s important to have the knowledge of how AI works. But why? Well for starters, it helps you better understand where it excels, and where it’s flawed, as well as helping you understand the capabilities and limitations of AI. Additionally, AI can help you prepare for the future, as it is becoming something that is used in more and more jobs, so learning how it works might help you work with AI in the future. Mrs. Johnson, a former computer science teacher at Kealing Middle School, said, “I think it was really important for my students to understand both the power of AI, and also the limitations.” At this point, AI is becoming such a big part of the news

“Even if you do understand the math of it, it’s sometimes hard to see what the computer has actually done” - Anita

Johnson

and daily life that it is becoming more important to learn about this than ever. So, how exactly does AI work? Well, to put it simply, it’s a lot of math due to some patterns the training model has picked up. It uses parameters to modify its output based on the patterns it has learned by using an equation. Even if you understand the math, humans still don’t really know what the equations mean. If you’re unfamiliar with AI, it can be looked at as a kind of programming, where instead of telling the computer every single possibility and accounting for it, you just give it inputs and outputs, and it solves the problem itself. When asked about the capabilities of AI, Mrs. Johnson stated that it was changing every day, but that AI is better than humans at most things involving pattern recognition. It’s important to note that even though we really only talk about AI writing and art in depth, there are far more forms of AI and its applications.