Grade 6 · Technology · Lesson 9

What is AI? Strengths and limits

AI — short for artificial intelligence — is software that learns patterns from huge piles of examples and then uses those patterns to predict what comes next. A chatbot finishes your sentence; an image generator paints what your words describe; a translation tool guesses the most likely sentence in another language. AI is powerful, but it does not understand the world the way a person does.

What this lesson teaches

1Define AI as a model trained on data to predict patterns
2Identify tasks AI handles well and tasks where humans do better
3Recognize hallucination, bias, and missing context as core AI limits
4Choose when to use AI as a helper and when to verify its output

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