Edexcel 1CP2 5.2.2: AI, machine learning and robotics
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What it covers
Machines now make decisions that used to be made by people: who gets an interview, what a camera thinks it sees, when a car brakes. Those decisions are learned from data, and data carries the marks of the world it came from. This lesson is about what AI and robots are good for, what goes wrong, and how to check a training set before trusting what it teaches.
- What AI and machine learning are
- Where they help
- Where they go wrong
- Auditing a training set
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Lessons that teach it
- F12.7 AI, robots and bias Technology and society
What AI is good for, where it goes wrong, and auditing a training set for bias. - F12.8 Technology, jobs and daily life Technology and society
Automation and work, how daily life changed, and how automatable a job is.
Try it on a robot
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