The term artificial intelligence (AI) was officially coined by John McCarthy in 1956. AI is now considered the most important thing mankind is currently working on. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, believes that this technology is even more significant than fire and electricity. So…
Let’s build a PacMan game — except without the maze! Use the arrow keys to control PacMan, and try to collect as many balls as you can without getting touched by the ghosts. Each time a ghost touches you, you lose a…
If you’ve read our previous article about making games in Scratch, you’ll know that games are an incredibly broad genre. Anything that has player input and an objective can be considered a game. However, the vast majority of games include more than…
We understand that transitioning across different teachers or mentors can be a bit difficult for students and families at times. But though not immediately obvious, there’s actually several reasons why exposing kids of all ages to multiple mentor figures can teach them…
Popular voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri and Google use speech recognition software to answer your questions, but kids’ language is highly complex and unpredictable. Children over-enunciate words, elongate certain syllables, punctuate each word as they think aloud or skip some words…
For kids 10 and under, there are many games and toys that help them understand the building blocks of computer programming. For example, Bitsbox delivers a physical box to your home every month containing a kit of projects, and then your young…
An artificial intelligence (AI) technology made by a firm co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk has won praise for its ability to generate coherent stories, novels and even computer code but it remains blind to racism or sexism. GPT-3, as Californian company OpenAI’s…
It’s a super auto-completer. With a little training, it’s a writer, coder, composer, translator, and puzzle solver. It’s the Swiss Army Knife of AI from OpenAI, a San Francisco R&D shop set up to guide a path to safe artificial general intelligence and…
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant utopia. Many things have happened since John McCarthy coined the term at the 1956 Dartmouth Conference. What was once just a dream is now a reality – smart virtual assistants, chatbots, smart home devices, self-driving…
