Bip 
How does a computer learn?
A photo search for dogs turns up a muffin. Bip and Bok go inside the computer to see how it learns, and why it still gets things wrong.
What kids learn
- Why you can't write rules for spotting a dog
- How a computer learns from examples: guess, check, nudge
- Why it called a cat on a lawn a dog
- Why sounding sure isn't the same as being right
- Who did what when this video was made with AI
A free teacher guide
Two pages, printed front and back:
- places to pause and ask, with what to listen for
- a five-minute class activity with a paper ball and a bin
- what each part of the video really is, for you, in case the kids ask harder questions
- the chapter times
Free to print and share for classroom use.
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About Bip & Bok
Bip and Bok want to know how everything works. In each episode they pick one big idea and work it out together, a small piece at a time.
The first series is How AI Works. It starts with how a computer learns, and why it sometimes gets things wrong.
For curious kids, and for the grown-ups who keep getting asked "but how?"
Made by a person with the help of AI. The end of episode 1 explains who did what.