--- title: Counting the AI in one ordinary day — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Counting the AI in one ordinary day», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Most AI is not a talking robot; it is small and quiet, hidden inside things you use without thinking. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / Counting the AI in one ordinary day # Counting the AI in one ordinary day Lesson 19 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/0/) — Most AI is not a talking robot; it is small and quiet, hidden inside things you use without thinking. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/1/) — Try Mia's family game: from breakfast to bedtime, count every time a machine guessed something for you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/2/) — The phone camera, the map, the speaker, the spam filter, the bank's fraud check, the weather forecast: they found 14 in one day. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/3/) — Each helper is good at one job and blind to everything else: the speaker will play "the poop song" a forty-seventh time without ever getting bored, because it has no idea when enough is enough. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/4/) — Noticing these helpers calmly, and checking them where it matters, is the grown-up way to live with them. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/5/) — A smart speaker never gets bored; it will play the same song as often as it is asked, so grown-ups may set limits. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/6/) — Spam filters use AI to spot junk and scam emails, but some real emails end up in the spam folder too. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/7/) — Banks use AI to spot unusual spending and block possible fraud; sometimes a real payment is blocked by mistake. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/8/) — To check that a message really comes from the bank, use the bank's own app or known number, not a link in the message. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/9/) — Weather forecasts use computer models and AI to make good guesses, but weather is hard to predict, so forecasts are not promises. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/10/) — Some farm tractors steer themselves using GPS (signals from satellites that tell a machine exactly where it is), and farms use AI to help plant, spray and check crops. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/11/) — Computer players in games are AI opponents, usually with difficulty levels that people set. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/12/) — Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/13/) — Some hearing aids use AI to make voices clearer in noisy rooms. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/14/) — Adverts usually follow what you searched and watched online; it is not proven that phones secretly listen to talk to choose adverts, though many people wonder. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/15/) — AI is already part of everyday life in many small ways, and noticing it calmly is wiser than ignoring it or fearing all of it. - ← previous: [Cars, doctors, scientists and translators](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/) - next →: [In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)