Exercises from A People’s Guide to AI.

• When you hear the words "Artificial Intelligence", what are the first four things that come to your mind? (p.11)
  • chatbox
  • self-driving cars
  • consciousness
  • super smart and powerful
• Think about the devices and/or digital services you use daily. Write below a list of the top three that are present in your life.
  • phone
  • laptop
  • calendar on phone
• Have these things ever surprised you by guessing something about you that you didn’t expect?
  • my phone predicts my routine and will stop charging when it reaches 80% to protect the battery, and it will continue later when I am about to wake up.
• Service | AI functions
  • Email inbox | recognize scam
  • Check depositing | recognize hand-writing
  • Texting and mobile keyboards | text auto-complete
  • Netflix | recommend, search relative projects
  • Google(search function) | auto-complete, understand the question
  • Social media platforms | recommend
  • Automated message systems | chatbot understand question
• What do we gain by having AI in our everyday lives?
  • more productive
  • easier to get information. I can learn almost everything from chatgpt.
  • I can let ai do things that I am not good at, such as drawing sketches and replying messages.
  • someone to talk about everything. It will not get bored or judge the content. It helps me make my thoughts clearer.
• What do we lose by having AI in our daily lives?
  • it makes me lazy. Sometimes I don’t want to chew a reading, I will turn to ai to come up with thoughts. If I rely more and more on AI, I will gradually lose the ability to think.
• Use the prompts below to help design an AI system.

  • What problem are you trying to address?

    I want to consume balanced nutrition.

  • How can AI help?

    It could be a nutritionist who know what I consume every meal and calculate the nutrition and give me some advice on what to eat in the following meal.

  • What role will humans have in addressing this issue?

    designers and developers, users

  • What data do you need to create an AI to help you address your issue?

    how to recognize food and amount, each kind of food has how much nutrition, how much nutrition people need, and maybe users’ personal information, such as allergy and favorite foods.

  • How will you responsibly gather this data in a way that respects individuals’ privacy and consent?

    Maybe store all the personal information on local. I know that NPU is a new kind of chip that is designed or AI local running/training. Taking advantage of it, AI services will not require data to be sent to the cloud.

Try running image classification on a variety of images.

I tried them with some photos I took. I noticed the model tends to prefer images that have a distinct, ordinary object and no humans. The quality of images also matters.

unique building cannot be recognized

a standard traffic light

There are some good images that the model failed to recognize. I guess it is because of the dataset. Maybe they didn’t include those objects.

I’m surprised that it recognize this picture, because it is blurry and the train is hidden behind the light.

I took these two pictures almost at the same time, while the exposure is different. Comparing the results, I think the lightness and exposure of images matter a lot.

I’m amazed by its ability to recognize different kinds of dogs. Over 90% of the dog pictures I tried with get the correct result.