Experiment

Train your own Artificial Intelligence!

Have you ever wondered how your smartphone recognizes your face or how voice assistants like Alexa and Siri work? They use artificial intelligence (AI) to learn from experience!

How does it work?

In this experiment, you will train your own AI with Google's Teachable Machine website. You will learn how machines recognize patterns and how we provide them with data.

Artificial intelligence (AI) learns by example. It recognizes patterns in data and makes predictions. To do this, the AI must be trained to learn step by step and improve its results. In Teachable Machine, you train a model by taking different images and teaching the AI to differentiate between them. This is also how facial recognition or image recognition works on smartphones!

Time to explore

  • What happens if you show your AI images with poor lighting or from other angles? Try it out!

  • Can you teach the AI to recognize emojis or hand gestures? Experiment with other objects or try to train a model for other tasks!

  • How many image examples does your AI need to distinguish between an apple and a pear? Is it more or less than for an apple and a pencil, for example?

  • If you only take pictures of green apples during training, can your AI reliably recognize a red apple? Think about what this could mean for the classification of human faces, for example.

  • You can also start an “Audio Project” to train an AI with sounds.

  • Attention – Pose Project would be another option, but you would have to record yourself. Check with your parents beforehand.

Train your own Artificial Intelligence! | vistascience