Living and Working with
Artificial Intelligence 

Learning Objectives

• Describe AI to someone

• Give examples of how they are affected by AI technology in their own daily lives

• Recognize AI in their daily lives

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Learning Objectives

• Explain what autonomy means.

• Given a robot, explain what it does and what kinds of decisions it makes.

• Decide whether a device is a robot or not. Roombas are robots. Your grandmother’s antique Electrolux vacuum is not a robot. Why not?

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Learning Objectives

• Explain what autonomy means.

• Given a robot, explain what it does and what kinds of decisions it makes.

• Decide whether a device is a robot or not. Roombas are robots. Your grandmother’s antique Electrolux vacuum is not a robot. Why not?

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Learning Objectives

1. Explain the sensors on a self-driving car: what they do and where they are located.

2. Explain the decisions a self-driving car makes, or alternatively, explain the subsystems that make up a self-driving car.

Mod 1.3 - Video Case Study

1. Videos and Resources

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Learning Objectives

• Explain how some part of perception works, e.g., explain an edge detector, or explain how face templates are aligned with a face image (see the Snapchat video).

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Learning Objectives

• Build your own Snapchat filter in Scratch.

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• Solve route-finding problems by coloring the graph, or by constructing a search tree.

• Graph coloring is more fun, but some types of search problems can’t be solved that way; they require us to construct a search tree.

• This is why we want students to learn both methods. They’ll use the search tree method later in the course when we look at AI algorithms for game playing and puzzle solving.

Mod 1.5 - Video Case Study

1. Videos and Resources

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Learning Objectives

• Identify the safety/social issues with self-driving cars.

• Describe the current state of autonomous driving technology.

• Debate what to do about people sleeping in their Teslas.

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Student Activity

1. Dream Bot Activity: Project Template

Teacher Resources

1. Dream Bot Example: iDoggo