This month’s topic is Artificial Intelligence (AI). If you have ever tried to order a pizza through Alexa, or asked Siri to change the song, or looked through your social media feed, then you have already used AI in your everyday life. AI does so many incredible things for the world and is all around us, in places you’d never expect. Even small things like the playlists that are made by Spotify, are actually a form of AI figuring out what songs you like to listen to. Without a doubt, AI can be one of the most interesting topics to learn about.

AI stands for Artificial Intelligence and is the concept of a computer being able to learn and perform actions on its own. The idea of AI is that it is supposed to mimic human intelligence. It can learn and adapt to new situations to complete its task, just like a person could. The world of AI is vast with so much to offer, so come and join us, as we explore the technologically advanced field of Artificial Intelligence.

  • Join Dr. Babak Enayati with IEEE Power and Energy Society to learn more about Artificial Intelligence during the TryEngineering Tuesday: Artificial Intelligence Webinar on-demand.
  • Learn what AI is and how we use it in our lives with Simplilearn.
  • Read these real life examples of AI that are used in your everyday life from Beebom.
  • Listen to Volker Hirsch during his TEDx talk, as he discusses AI and how far advanced we really are in it. 
  • Watch as Shubhankar Jain shares his experiences working as a machine learning engineer at SurveyMonkey as he talks about the field with Springboard.   
  • Listen as some of the world’s leading minds like, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, in AI talk about the potential future of the field. 

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Have fun and learn more about AI by trying out some fun hands-on activities to help better learn and understand AI.

  • Program a robot to be able to differentiate between trash and fish and more, with AI for oceans by code.org! With this activity, experience a simplified interactive experience of training an AI to learn its task. It also provides informative videos to help better understand everything you learn from the experience. 
  • Learn the basic concept of AI through these easy to perform activities, and learn how an AI follows instructions, created by iste.org.
  • Try out these fun experiments presented to us by experiments.withgoogle. Have fun with all kinds activities to learn the wide range of uses presented to us by AI. 
  • Try your hand at teaching a computer to play a game with Machine Learning for Kids. You will train and test your own AI project to recognize anything you want it to. 

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Be Inspired by hearing how your peers are making a difference in their communities and then try it yourself! 

  • Andrew Tran made an AI system to help students understand and answer questions about their schoolwork while learning from home.
  • Read about Time Magazine’s Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao, and her new app that utilizes AI to recognize when words or phrases might be considered bullying on social media and warn the user before they send it.
  • See how two young middle schoolers used an easy to use program to make their own AI to sort legos. 
  • Come learn about Emma Yang’s incredible AI based app designed to help people with Alzheimers. Emma has gone on to use her skills and knowledge to continue to do more projects to help her community.  
  • Learn about Neil Deshmukh passion for AI and view his various AI projects, designed to help people, on his website.

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    • Write down at least one new thing that you learned about Artificial Intelligence.
    • Think about how to inspire others and make a difference in your community.
    • Have you, a family member, or teacher share your work on Facebook using #tryengineeringtuesday. We want to hear from you!  
    • If you tried any of the activities, make sure you download your IEEE Power & Energy Society Badge. Collect them all and store them using this Badge collection tool.

 

Thank you to the IEEE Power & Energy Society for making this TryEngineering Tuesday possible!