3 – Current developments in AI

• develop an understanding of the current development and use of AI
• use your teamwork skills to successfully create a presentation as a group

• artificial intelligence (AI)
• intelligence

• ethics
• issues

• development
• teamwork

• For the next two lessons, you will be working in groups to create a presentation on current developments in AI. You will present this in your groups to the class.
• Your audience is your peers.
• Before you begin, you will learn how to plan effective presentations.
• The slides below are from presentations on cyberbullying so focus on how the content is presented.

Sans serif fonts — these fonts don’t have ‘kicks’ at the edges of the letters. Sans serif fonts are much easier to read, especially from a distance.

Contrasting background and font colours — viewers with visual impairments often find it easier to read large fonts that use contrasting colours for the background and the font.

Pastel shades for backgrounds — viewers with dyslexia often find it easier to read with a pastel background.

Images can be used to portray details that text can’t. Making the image the focus here has a bigger impact on the audience.

Here is a list of some current AI technology you can use as inspiration, if you have found another type of AI make sure to ask your teacher if it is OK before you start making your presentation.

• Alexa/Google Home
• ASIMO
• Self-driving cars
• IBM Watson
• The Mars Rover
• Google Duplex
• Boston Dynamics’ Spot
• Agricultural Robots
• Financial Trading AI
• Autopilot
• Medical AIs

• SMMRY – summarises text on any webpage
• Emily Howell – an AI composer
• Longplayer – a platform designed to play 1000 years of unique music without repetition
• 1 the Road – an AI with a book of the same name, based on a travel across America in the style of Kerouac’s On the Road.
• DALL·E – an image generating AI based on text input
• ChatGPT – a text generating AI based on a prompt input

For this activity you need to work in a group 2-3 to produce a final presentation. The process is as follows:

1. Choose a team leader who will create the original presentation file and share it with your group.
2. Decide on a colour scheme/fonts to use, but manage your time effectively.
3. Create an outline for your presentation — think about what will be displayed on each slide.
4. Divide the slides between your team members (add names to the owners of the slides).
5. Pick one current AI technology (see the list above for suggestions)
6. Answer the default set of questions
7. Pick three questions from question list as your project focus.
8. Work out who is responsible for which questions in your team
9. Each team member works on their own slides.

Focus your time in the first lesson on this topic on the content of each slide. There will be time in the second lesson to add images, etc.

Use the worksheet below to guide your work and see the list of questions you need to use.

For this project you will be awarded a badge as a team, the below assessment rubric will be used to award you marks.

Aspect of presentation	Emerging [1]	Meets expectations [2]	Exceeds expectations [3]	Score
Text	There are long paragraphs and blocks of text that are too small to read	There are some larger blocks of text on slides, but these are infrequent	Only text prompts are used Text is kept to a minimum
Images	It is not clear if images are relevant or effective	Some images are effective Some images are relevant to the subject	All images used are effective All images are relevant to the subject
Content	The content used isn’t relevant to the subject	Some of the content used is relevant to the subject	All content used is relevant to the subject
Audience	The images, text, and content are not appropriate for the audience	Some of the images, text, and content are appropriate for the audience	All images, text, and content are appropriate for the audience
Communication	Presentation skills need to be practised further	Most of the team members presented their slides to a high standard	All team members presented their slides to a high standard
Time management	The presentation was over 7 minutes long or less than 3	The presentation was 5 minutes long	The presentation was between 3 and 5 minutes long

• A score of 6 or less.

• A score between 7 and 12.

• A score of 13 or more.

In these lessons, you…

• Worked in a group to research and present information on a current use or development of AI.

Next lesson, you will…

• Look at different fictional AI and their characteristics.

• Consider whether a technological singularity will help or hinder the future of humanity.

• Take a quiz to test your knowledge on AI and it’s future.