Computing // Artificial Intelligence

Patterns and Classification

Humans are great at spotting patterns; computers can learn to spot patterns too, but they need lots of examples; sorting and classification activities as the basis of machine learning

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If you showed the learner pictures of cats and dogs, could they explain how a computer could learn to tell them apart — and why it would need many more pictures than a person would?

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  • Sort a set of items into categories and explain the rules they used
  • Explain that computers learn patterns by looking at many examples
  • Describe why a computer needs more examples than a human to learn the same pattern

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