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Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: A Student-Professor Dialog

Teaching in Higher Ed

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How to Explain AI to an Eight Year Old

Sted: You can say like AI might be like a little helper to you. Maybe like a babysitter or a nanny, like someone who's there to just make your life a little easier and explain things for you. I would tell them that the way you can think about generative artificial intelligence is that if you're dealing with words, that it is basically this program that kind of treats words like Legos. Sted: If we're getting into the more advanced general AI, I'm not quite sure whether I'm ready to explain that to an eight year old. The 80 year old is an interesting challenge in that I feel like a lot of their points of reference are going

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