Bit by bit artificial intelligence (AI) is working its way into our lives. If you have seen IBM’s Watson in action, you’ve seen AI at work. Some of the seating chart programs available online today include a small bit of artificial intelligence. See ClassCharts.com for an example of that. But what is AI? And where is it going in the future? Those questions and more are tackled in the latest video from Common Craft.

Applications for Education
After watching the video ask your students to think of aspects of their lives that could be affected by artificial intelligence. Ask them to brainstorm some problems that AI might help people solve in the future.

I occasionally hear people confuse artificial intelligence with augmented reality. That’s an understandable mistake as they do sound kind of similar. Augmented Reality (AR) is explained in the following Common Craft video.