Stanford CRAFTHow do computers see and understand visual information?
In this lesson, students explore AI “under the hood” by learning how sensory information is converted into data and used for mathematical operations that make an AI “intelligent”. Students will learn that visual data has features like brightness, and distance (like between parts of a face) and is used in applications like facial recognition. Along the way, students will be able to connect these technical processes to social consequences such as bias, and learn to treat AI with skepticism.
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