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Class 6 · Chapter 1 — Introduction to AI

🤖 What is AI? — intelligence, history & the Turing Test

What does it mean to be smart? People learn, think, solve problems and feel — and there are many different kinds of intelligence. AI is what happens when we give some of that smartness to machines: computing + intelligence. Play the four games below to meet the kinds of intelligence, travel through AI's history, take the famous Turing Test, and spot the difference between a machine that just follows rules and one that truly learns. 🚀

Game 1 · Which kind of intelligence?

🧠 Everyone is smart in their own way

Read about the student, then tap the kind of intelligence they show best.

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Game 2 · The story of AI

🕰️ Step through AI's history

Press Next milestone to light up each stage and hear its story.

👉 Press ▶ Next milestone to begin the journey through time.
Game 3 · The Turing Test

🕵️ Human or machine?

You sent a message and got this reply. Was it written by a real person or a computer? Take your best guess!

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Game 4 · Automation or AI?

⚙️ Just following rules, or really learning?

Some machines follow fixed rules (automation). Real AI learns from data. Which is this?

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🤖 The big picture — what AI really is AI = computing + intelligence. But careful — not every machine is AI! A microwave or a timer just follows fixed rules, the same way every time — that's automation, not intelligence. Modern AI is special because it learns from data and gets better over time. And there are three ways a machine can learn: supervised (a teacher gives labelled examples), unsupervised (it finds groups all by itself), and reinforcement (it learns by trial, reward and error). You can try each one in the Classification, Clustering and Reinforcement labs!

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