The Word Weavers - 4: How Machines Learned to Talk: An Illustrated Guide Artificial Intelligence for Ages 12-18

The machine can see. It still cannot be spoken to.Teaching it language breaks every intuition the children have. Language turns out not to be about grammar, or even about meaning. It is about what comes next - and that fact unsettles everybody.Words as places, attention as a machine for deciding what to ignore, a transformer explained with twelve people and a stopwatch and no mathematics at all, and why a confident answer and a true one are not the same thing.Book 4 of five. Deliberately names no product and no company, so it will still make sense in ten years.Inside this volume: - Why splitting a sentence into words is harder than it looks- Words as places: meaning you can measure with a ruler- Predicting what comes next, and why that is nearly the whole trick- Attention: deciding what to ignore- A transformer acted out by twelve people and a stopwatch- Why a confident answer and a true one are not the same thingTen chapters, ten paper-and-pencil activities, each with a five-minute solo version. No computer required, ever. Written for readers aged 12 to 18, fully illustrated in colour.Everything it learns, you learn first.