AI in your Life

Activity

Mindmap: In the centre of your mindmap, begin with the question ‘How is AI used in your life?’ –

Areas of your life: Branch out to list some of the different parts of your life – home, school, phone, sport, shopping etc.

Purpose of AI: After you write down the different types of AI, can you think of why someone created this AI that you use in these different parts of your life?

Facial Recognition

step 1: how we recognise faces as humans

Let’s start by testing your own facial recognition as a human. Can you name these singers?

step 2: feature extraction

Now its time to extract some features. Write down five things that you notice about each image, such as hair colour, hair length, clothing colour etc.

step 3: database search

Now write down the features of this particular singer,

again noting the hair colour, hair length, clothing colour etc. Chances are that it will match closely with another image, even though they are different images.

While it might seem extremely simple, you just did manually, what AI does digitally when it is trying to recognise someone.

What are your thoughts about this basic approach?

What is great about it, what could be bad about it?

And it is not just humans.

Check out how this same technology is being used to help snow leopards here:

https://news.microsoft.com/transform/snow-leopard-selfies-ai-save-species/

Telling twins apart

This next video is an example of facial recognition technology at play:

(In fact it is so good that it can tell identical twins apart!)

The Australian conducted this experiment…