Objectives
In this lesson you will learn:
- Machines learning agents use data to continue making better decisions.
- Programmers train machine learning agents to make decisions through practice with lots of data.
- Machine learning agents trained with different datasets could make different decisions that lead to different actions. This means some agents make better decisions and take more correct actions than others.
To complete this lesson you will need:
- A device with access to Internet
- AI Inventors Notebook
Over the course of this lesson you will:
- Build a AI agent to classify text (train text).
- Compare actions of machine learning agents trained with different datasets.
Pretend you’re an AI agent
Activity
Take a marker and sticky note. Take 2 minutes and draw as many pictures of dogs as you can.
You are an AI agents that has been programmer with the goal of finding all the dogs in your neighborhood.
The sticky note drawings are your dataset.
Questions
What patterns do you see in the drawings? Why are you finding patterns? What can you add to your data to help the agent better find dogs?
Machine Learning
AI agents gather data to make decisions that enable actions
Question
How do machine learning agents take actions without humans telling them exactly what to do?
We can train (or program) Machine Learning agents to find patterns in data and continue using data to make even better decisions.
Machine Learning training is a little like teaching your dog a trick.
Let’s Practice : Create an AI Agent
You’ve trained a machine learning agent:
- Cognimates gathers data. You input data like a sensor would collect data.
- Train agent to practice finding patterns in text data and test if it’s making the right decisions
- Agent decides if text is positive, negative or neutral
- That enable actions
Compare Agent’s Actions
Question
Do you think agents that gather different data might make different decisions?
Different decisions can lead to different actions.
Agents with different data make different decisions and take different actions. This means that some AI agents make better decisions and take more correct actions than others.
Reflect
Whole group reflection
Can you think of any AI agents not making the right decisions? How could they be made better?
In your AI Inventors notebook
Do you have an idea for an AI invention that would use sound, text or number data to achieve a goal?
Big Takeaways
Programmers train AI agents to find patterns in data to make decisions – so agents with different data will make different decisions.
An AI agent with not enough data will take the wrong actions. It’ll be hard to find the pattern!