AI Basics
Foundational concepts for kids learning about artificial intelligence.
AI Basics is where a curious kid starts. These articles explain what artificial intelligence actually is — a pattern-matching machine trained on examples — in language a nine-year-old can repeat back to you at dinner.
What you'll find here
- How machines learn from examples instead of hand-written rules
- Why a chatbot predicts words rather than knowing facts
- What hallucination looks like, and how to catch it
- Where AI already shows up in a kid's daily life
Read these first if AI is new to your family. Everything in Prompting and Creativity with AI builds on the ideas here.
