Planned

The Robot That Learned By Looking

The honest version of machine learning, at crayon level: a computer that was never given a rule, only examples, and is therefore only ever as good as the examples somebody chose for it.

Status
Planned
Reader
Ages 3 to 6
Format
Coloring book
Teaches
How a computer learns

The child colors dogs. Big ones, small ones, fluffy ones, one that looks a bit like a mop. Then they meet the cat in the dog costume and get asked, gently, whether that one belongs in the pile.

Choosing good examples is the entire subject. A child who has crossed out the mop has met bad training data years before anybody uses that phrase near them.