Introduction to Discover AI in Daily Life

Have you ever wondered how an app can recommend movies that you may like?

Or how a computer can suggest words to finish a sentence you're typing?

Both of these examples, and many more, are made possible by artificial intelligence.

In this lesson, you will learn about artificial intelligence, explore how it is used, and use it to create a visual dictionary.

"Artificial intelligence," or AI for short, is the ability of a computer or machine to think or learn.

One common way AI learns is by using powerful mathematical tools to analyze data and look for patterns.

A-I systems incorporate many functions including, using cameras, microphones, and sensors to understand their environment.

Processing data to make decisions and figure out solutions.

Learning from data to improve their abilities over time.

And interacting with humans by talking to us or helping us accomplish things.

Consider the movie app.

The app sees many examples of the movies people watch and what ratings they give them.

To recommend movies to you, the app can find a set of people who have similar tastes as you and who've watched and liked many of the same movies.

Then, it can suggest you watch movies they liked that you haven't seen yet.

The app may also consider other data, like which actors are in movies you like, or which movies have similar images or music.

AI can have many benefits, like speed, consistency, and accuracy.

First, AI can help people by making lots of decisions very quickly.

If you asked a human movie critic for recommendations, they would first need to learn about the movies you enjoy, which might take a lot of time.

And, it would take a huge number of movie critics to make recommendations to everyone who wants to watch a movie.

But an AI system can check tens of thousands of movies in less than a second to pick one just for you.

At the exact same time, it can make personalized recommendations to many other people.

AI can also help people by being more consistent than humans.

When people make decisions, they can be affected by things like whether they're tired, hungry, or become distracted.

AI can be designed to make decisions the exact same way over and over again.

AI can also do repetitive tasks 24 hours a day, seven days a week, possibly freeing up people to spend time doing other things.

Another advantage of AI is that sometimes it can be more accurate than humans.

To learn how to detect diseases based on X-rays, AI can look at data from hundreds of thousands of medical records— more than any single medical professional could review in a lifetime— and use that to suggest an accurate diagnosis.

Although AI can have many positive impacts on society, it can also make mistakes and have unexpected effects.

You'll learn more about some challenges of AI in a later video.

Although AI isn't perfect, understanding it and practicing how to use it can help you use it responsibly.

As you complete this lesson, you'll: explore how artificial intelligence is used in a game called Quick Draw, you'll practice using AI in Verse by Verse to compose a poem, discover how people use AI in a typical day, get to know some challenges of AI, and take notes on what you learned in a document.

Then, you will use what you've learned about AI and some common tools to help you create a visual dictionary in a Google Slides presentation.

You will complete this lesson using Google Docs, AutoDraw, Google Translate, and Google Slides.

For the next few videos, you may work with a partner to answer the questions or you can also work by yourself.

To begin, sign in to your Google account.

Open a new tab in your browser, and navigate to "google.com." If you are not signed in, do so now.

If you do not have a Google account, pause the video and create one.

Then, make a copy of the "A-I Activities and Reflections" document next to this video.

And rename it.

You'll use this document to record your answers to questions and completed activities throughout this lesson.

Now, it's your turn: sign in to your Google account, make a copy of the document linked next to this video, and rename it.