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How Machines Think

Machines are not clever. They are just very, very good at following your rules.

Ages 7–128 modules πŸͺ¨ Starts with no device

You are about to find out the biggest secret in the world of computers: machines cannot think at all. They only sort, count, and follow steps β€” and you already know how to do all three. By the end of this course you will have taught a machine to see something with your own two hands.

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The 8 modules

1
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Sorting Is Thinking

Every clever machine starts with one simple move: putting things that are alike into the same pile.

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2
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Be the Robot

A machine only does what you said β€” not what you meant.

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3
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Guess My Rule

A machine learns by looking at lots of examples until it can guess the rule by itself.

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4
πŸ“± Shared phone

Teach the Phone to See

You can train a real machine to recognise something today, with a borrowed phone and thirty photos.

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5
πŸ“± Shared phone

The Bot That Talks Back

A talking machine is just a big pile of 'if they say this, answer that'.

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6
πŸ“± Shared phone

When the Machine Is Wrong

A machine will give you a confident answer even when it has no idea β€” so somebody must always check.

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The Cardboard Sorting Machine

Sorting done by a real machine is just a rule plus a moving part.

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8
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Capstone: My Village Helper

Pick one real problem near your home and build a machine that helps with it β€” then show it to someone.

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For a parent or teacher

Your child will learn what sorting, rules, patterns and training data really are, using stones, caps and cardboard before ever touching a screen. By module 8 they can train a simple image recogniser on a shared phone and explain, out loud, exactly why it works and where it fails.

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