Artificial Intelligence (AI) : Machine Learning Programming

The best way to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) is to make things that uses AI. In this course, students will build fun Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects such as games, virtual assistants as well as programs that can discern language, images, numbers and more. Example of data will be collected and used to train the IBM Watson machine learning computer. The training models will be used for various coding projects.  Each project will guide students to demonstrates a real-world use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. After each project, the implications, limitations, improvements of the results to deepen students' understanding of AI real-life applications.

Module 1 & 2
1.     	Discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)
Learn more about AI and ML, and why we use ML instead of traditional programming for our projects.
Learn about the software tools that will be used to build ML projects.
2.	Comparing AI and non-AI programs
The following text recognition projects will be used to illustrate the difference between AI and non-AI programs:
•	Smart Assistant
•	Seasons of Fun
3.	Sorting Animal Pictures
Train the computer to recognize photo images and then have it automatically sort pictures. Sheep or Cow, Bird or Bear, Car or Cup, Duck or Dog, Hat or Hammer etc..

Module 3 & 4
1.	Discuss AI history and current uses of AI.
2.	SNAP!
Make a card game to recognize pictures of your card and play SNAP! game. Clubs, diamonds, hearts or spades. 
3.	Chameleon
Train the chameleon to change its color to match the background.

Module 5 & 6
1.	Discuss future uses of AI.
2.	Shy Panda
Make a dancing panda that gets shy and stops dancing if it sees you looking. Teach a computer to recognize webcam pictures.
3.	Mailman Max
Make a postal sorting office in Scratch that can recognize handwritten postcodes on envelopes. Teach a computer to recognize handwriting

Module 7 & 8
1.	Face Lock
Make a phone that unlocks if it recognizes your face. Teach a computer to recognize faces.
2.	Chat Bot
Create a "Chatbot" AI program that is automated to answer people's questions.
3.	Finding an Object in a Picture
Train a computer to find a smaller object in a picture. This technique is used in real-world applications like processing satellite images and training self-driving cars.

Module 9 & 10
1.     Shoot the bug
Teach a computer to play a game.
Create a Breakout-style arcade game in Scratch that learns the angle to shoot balls at.
2.	Tic Tac Toe
An example of computer games and AI by re-creating a version of a famous AI research project to
train a computer to play Tic Tac Toe.
3.	Pac-Man
Create a Pac-Man game in Scratch that learns how to avoid the ghost.
Teach a computer to play a game.

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