Lia & Leo Explore: What is AI?

If you want your child to understand the smart machines they talk to every day - instead of thinking they're magic - then keep reading.How did the tablet know which video I wanted? Can a robot think? Is Pixel alive?Tired of hearing "the phone just knows" and having no better answer yourself? Found only robot fairy tales or textbooks for twelve-year-olds? Want your five-year-old to know what AI actually is before the world tells them what to think about it?If so, What Is AI? is for you.Explaining artificial intelligence to a child doesn't have to be complicated. The whole idea fits in three words a kindergartner already knows: guess, check, fix. That is what a smart machine does millions of times, and exactly what Pixel - a small robot who arrives in a box marked "From Aunt Rosa" - does on every page. Lia asks. Leo tests. Pixel guesses, gets it wrong, and learns. Written so a five-year-old can follow the picture and a nine-year-old can argue about the text at dinner.In What Is AI?, your child will discover: - The one game every smart machine plays - and why it can't learn without losing first - Why the speaker understands "play my song" but gets your grandmother's name wrong - What a machine really "sees" when it looks at a cat (it is not a cat) - The honest answers to the three big ones: Is it magic? Is it alive? Can it be wrong? - And much, much more - 13 picture stories, 13 "how it really works" pages, Wow-did-you-know facts and Talk-About-It questions with no right answer Imagine your child explaining to the babysitter that the phone "doesn't know, it guesses" - and being right.Even if your child is five and can't read yet, every story page is a picture with big lettering and speech balloons, made to be followed without help. Even if they are nine and "know all about AI," the how-it-works pages hold up. Even if you couldn't explain a neural network to save your life, you can explain guess-check-fix - and that is the part that matters.Ages 4-9. 52 pages, full color. Part of the Lia & Leo Explore series of real-science picture books from Elwood & Co. Also available: 100 Whys About Space.If you want your child to meet AI with curiosity instead of confusion, scroll up and click "Add to Cart" now.