The Royal Institution - Christmas Lectures 2023 - The truth about AI
The Royal Institution's 2023 Christmas Lectures - The truth about AI, will take place in December 2023 and will be broadcast on the BBC later in the month. This collection of resources from the STEM Learning digital resource collection can support the themes addressed in this three lectures series presented by Professor Mike Wooldridge with the support of other eminent speakers in the field.
The lectures will explore the big questions facing AI and unravel the myths about how this ground-breaking technology really works.
The themes to be covered are:
- Comparing how artificial intelligence works and learns, with how the human brain functions, focussing on artifical neural networks which are inspired by neural structures in the brain.
- Explaining the recent rise in the use of generative AI to produce text, image or video based content.
- The existing role of AI in: healthcare, creative industries like art and music, and gaming
- How driverless cars and robots navigate their surroundings
- The risks of AI and the future of this technology
Further details about the lectures can be found on the Royal Institution website.
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The Grand Challenges – Our Futures programme (2018 to 2023) aimed to help young people develop the skills needed to bridge the gap between today’s learners and tomorrow’s career choices. The Government’s Industrial Strategy set out key Grand Challenge themes, aimed at putting the UK...
Machine learning: What is the effect of data size on a sorting activity?
This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting working scientifically in the classroom and relating science to real world experiences. In the first video Professor Brian Cox joins a teacher in a classroom to demonstrate the setting up and carrying out of the experiment. In...
Future of flight - artificial intelligence
In this Future of Flight challenge pupils explore the questions: 'Can machines think?', 'What is intelligence?' and 'What do we mean by artificial intelligence?' They explore where AI is used, spot patterns, continuing patterns and sequences. Students...
Human Enhancement
This unit asks students to consider the range of factors and the implications of human technological enhancements, focussing on brain-computer interfaces.
Human enhancements can be used to improve human functioning, such as a cochlea implant can help deaf people hear. This unit looks at other technological...
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| Subject(s) | Computing |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16, 16-19, FE/HE |
| Published | 2020 to date |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxj9j7 |
