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Artificial Intelligence - Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids

English · Hardback

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What is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence going to change our lives?
In Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Machines and Smart Robots with Science Activities for Kids,
kids ages 10 to 15 learn how machines develop into thinking, learning devices that can help humans perform tasks, make decisions, and work more efficiently. They can even help us have fun! Through a combination of hands-on science activities and student-paced learning, readers discover the AI machines of yesterday and today and learn about uses in various fields, such as entertainment, the military, and health care.
How can AI continue to improve our lives? Is there anything dangerous about AI? What are the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI? Essential questions, primary sources, and science-minded engineering activities let readers have a blast learning about the age of thinking machines we're in right now.
Try these hands-on science and engineering projects!

  • Make a model of a neural net out of playdough and toothpicks.
  • Take a Turing test.
  • Design your own rescue robot.


About the author










Angie Smibert is the author of more than 20 nonfiction books about science and technology for kids. Some of those titles include Building Better Robots; How it Works: The Internet; All about Coding; and 12 Great Moments that Changed Internet History. Before writing full time, she helped pioneer online training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Besides writing, she also teaches writing and human-computer interaction at Indiana University East. She lives in Roanoke, Virginia.


Product details

Authors Angie Smibert
Assisted by Alexis Cornell (Illustration)
Publisher Nomad Press (VT)
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 10 to 15
Product format Hardback
Released 31.08.2018
 
EAN 9781619306738
ISBN 978-1-61930-673-8
No. of pages 128
Dimensions 209 mm x 260 mm x 14 mm
Weight 530 g
Series Build it Yourself
Build it Yourself
Subjects Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology

Children's Books / Ages 9-12 Nonfiction, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Experiments & Projects, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / Inventions, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Computers / General

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