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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Robert Booth UK technology editor

Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills

Children look at computer screens as they are supervised by an adult
Children take part in an extracurricular club about coding and AI in Cambridge. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

In a Cambridge classroom, Joseph, 10, trained his AI model to discern between drawings of apples and drawings of smiles.

“AI gets lots of things wrong,” he said, as it mistakenly identified a fruit as a face. He set about retraining it and, in a flash, he had it back on track – instinctively understanding the inner nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning in a way few adults do.

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