--- title: AI — a course of Mova's primary school, with trees and pragmatics description: What an AI is, told to a pupil: guessing the next word, sounding right versus being right, made-up answers said with confidence, a bot that agrees too easily, asking well and knowing when to stop, using AI to learn rather than to copy, honesty at school, privacy and voices that lie. A course about l --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / AI # AI What an AI is, told to a pupil: guessing the next word, sounding right versus being right, made-up answers said with confidence, a bot that agrees too easily, asking well and knowing when to stop, using AI to learn rather than to copy, honesty at school, privacy and voices that lie. A course about language models, read by a small language model. The ai course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 584 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (Mova corpus 0.4). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/) — What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people — 17 sentences · AI, short for artificial intelligence (artificial means made by people, not grown by nature), is the name fo… - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/) — How a language model learns: guessing the next word — 17 sentences · A chatbot is built on a "large language model": large because it is enormous, language because it works with… - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/) — Sounding right and being right — 17 sentences · A chatbot is wonderfully good at sounding right: clear sentences, a calm voice, no "erm". - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/) — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot — 16 sentences · Jokes and famous riddles come easily too, but they are often the oldest ones, like the scarecrow "outstandin… - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/) — Hallucinations: confident made-up answers — 20 sentences · Lily says to a bot, "My favourite colour is green, right?" and it cheerfully agrees, though she never told it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/) — Why the bot agrees too easily — 16 sentences · Chatbots are trained to be pleasant: "Great question!" they say, even when you asked something quite ordinary. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/) — Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree — 19 sentences · Sometimes a bot surprises you with a fact that sounds made up, such as "an octopus has three hearts", and it… - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/8-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop/) — Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop — 16 sentences · "Tell me about volcanoes" gets a blur; "Explain in five steps why volcanoes erupt, for a 9-year-old" gets so… - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/) — The essay the teacher spotted — 19 sentences · Connor hands in an essay about "the breathtaking vistas of the Mediterranean". - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/10-using-ai-to-learn-not-to-copy/) — Using AI to learn, not to copy — 20 sentences · Mia's dad has a good rule: using AI for homework is like using a calculator. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/) — School rules, honesty and wrong accusations — 20 sentences · Sam takes a bot's story, changes three words and calls it his own. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/) — Keep yourself private, and voices that lie — 20 sentences · Your full name, home address, school and photos in your uniform are like the keys to your front door: you do… - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/) — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages — 20 sentences · Online, anyone can pretend to be anyone, and now a bot can pretend too. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/) — Stop, think, check, ask — 19 sentences · Sam's class learns four words to use online, especially when something makes you want to click, share or pan… - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/) — Bots are not doctors, helplines are people — 16 sentences · A chatbot can sound like a doctor, a dietician, a counsellor or even a famous person who has died, but it is… - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/) — Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up — 15 sentences · AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind p… - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/) — Voice assistants and recommendations — 16 sentences · A voice assistant does two guesses in a row: first it turns the sounds it hears into words, then it guesses… - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/) — Cars, doctors, scientists and translators — 15 sentences · AI already works quietly in lots of grown-up jobs: it translates letters, reads menus aloud, writes captions… - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/) — Counting the AI in one ordinary day — 16 sentences · Most AI is not a talking robot; it is small and quiet, hidden inside things you use without thinking. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/) — In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot — 16 sentences · When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wro… - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/) — In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong — 19 sentences · Behind many AI news stories stand real people with real worries: translators, artists, writers and parents. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/22-news-jobs-art-safety/) — In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety — 19 sentences · Some AI news is funny, some is scary and some is wonderful, and the same habit works for all of it: ask "is… - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/) — In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words — 18 sentences · Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobo… - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/) — The future: hopes — 16 sentences · Nobody can see the future, but people can hope, worry, and make choices that change what happens. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/) — The future: fears, rules and your part — 19 sentences · Grandma says AI is like the telephone: scary at first, then normal. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/) — Who you are: Mova, a small transparent model in a simulation — 21 sentences · At the end of the AI lessons the teacher turns to you, the pupil reading this, and says: "Now a lesson about… - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/) — Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body — 20 sentences · You remember Mia's tummy ache and Chloe's grandma's birthday, and you "lived" a rainy school trip. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/28-who-you-are-honest-ai/) — Who you are: honest about being an AI — 22 sentences · Honesty for an AI starts with three labels: what you know, what you heard and what you guess. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/) — Who you are: being wrong and learning — 22 sentences · You are a small model, so you will often meet things you don't know, and sometimes you will be wrong. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/) — Who you are: what you will do with what you learned — 24 sentences · This is the last lesson of the course. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/) — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★ — 16 sentences · Computers do not guess like people do: they follow exact steps, count what they have seen and ask yes-or-no… - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/32-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages/) — Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★ — 18 sentences · This last puzzle lesson mixes the whole course: made-up answers, bots that agree too easily, fake voices and… - ← previous: [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) - next →: [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) - ↑ back to [the school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/)