This is a little activity to help demystify AI to try and explain in a very simple way how machine learning works, what the chat bots we’re using are actually doing, what are large language models actually doing?
At the end of the day, they are software, they’re prediction engines, to make decisions based on images or data it has already encountered.
This is an activity called “Is this a Zegah?” and it was developed by Dr Marc Cicchino for the New Jersey AI Literacy Summit. Marc asked his young kid for a made up word, and the child very seriously thought about it and responded “Zegah”.
Can your learners work out what a Zegah is?
You can listen to Marc run this Zegah activity at SXSW Edu (you can listen to him talk about planning an AI teachers conference, or skip to the Zegah activity at around 12 minutes in) and see his slides.
The next activities in this AI series are ‘Let’s generate a sentence‘ and ‘Let’s write a story‘.