Get Ready For AI

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AI even designs clothes and helps us explore space! The list of what it can do keeps growing.

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Fashion

Fashion

• Designs new clothes
• Recommends your style
• Virtual fitting rooms
• Predicts next trends

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Environment

Environment

• Tracks deforestation
• Monitors wildlife
• Helps cut energy waste
• Helps predict wildfire risk

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Art & Music

Art & Music

• Creates paintings
• Composes music
• Writes stories
• Generates videos

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Education

Education

• Personalised lessons
• Instant feedback
• Language translation
• Answers some of your questions
• Teachers are still the best ones to help you learn and grow

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Space

Space

• Helps find new planets
• Guides Mars rovers
• Analyses star data
• Plans rocket routes

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Defence

Defence

• Spots cyber attacks
• Monitors borders
• Warns about dangers early
• Helps keep us safe
• But only people can make peace

Fleur again. Did you read all the cards?

AI can give personalised lessons. Who are still the best ones to help you learn and grow?

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My name is Nallah, and I want to talk to you about the work you might do one day!

A lot of grown-ups are worried that AI will take their jobs away.

Jobs will change, but the problems stay. So ask yourself: which problem would I love to solve? Helping sick people? Protecting animals? Saving our planet?

Some jobs of the future haven't even been invented yet! Many of them will probably involve AI. Here are some exciting careers waiting for YOU!

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AI Doctor

AI Doctor

Uses AI to help spot diseases in scans and choose the best treatment for each patient.

Study: Medicine + Computer Science

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AI Game Designer

AI Game Designer

Creates intelligent characters and worlds in video games that learn and adapt to players.

Study: Computing + Art + Maths

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AI Climate Scientist

AI Climate Scientist

Builds AI models to predict climate change and find solutions to save our planet.

Study: Science + Geography + Maths

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AI Ethics Lawyer

AI Ethics Lawyer

Makes sure AI is used fairly and legally. Fights for people's rights in the digital world.

Study: Law + Technology + Ethics

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AI Food Engineer

AI Food Engineer

Designs AI systems that create new foods, reduce waste and feed more people sustainably.

Study: Biology + Food Science + Computing

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AI Teacher

AI Teacher

Creates personalised AI learning tools that help every student learn in their own best way.

Study: Education + Psychology + Computing

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AI Artist

AI Artist

Combines human creativity with AI tools to make breathtaking art, music and stories.

Study: Art + Creative Computing

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AI Banker

AI Banker

Builds AI that spots a stolen card in a split second and keeps people’s money safe.

Study: Maths + Economics + Computer Science

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AI Safety Engineer

AI Safety Engineer

Tests AI systems to find problems before they cause harm. The guardians of safe AI.

Study: Engineering + Computing + Ethics

Accessible

Made so that everybody can use it, including people who cannot see, hear or move the way most people do.

Alzheimer’s disease

An illness that slowly damages the brain, usually in older people, so that remembering and thinking get harder. AI can help doctors spot it earlier.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Computer programmes made by people that can learn from data, find patterns and help solve problems. Very fast, but not a real brain.

Autocorrect

The thing on a phone or computer that changes what you typed into what it thinks you meant. That is an AI guessing, and it guesses wrong often enough to be funny.

Bias

When AI treats some people unfairly because of things like their gender, their ethnicity or race (where their family comes from and the colour of their skin), their religion or their ability (a disability). Often it is because the examples it learned from were unfair too. The computer does not notice by itself, so people need to check.

Binary

The computer’s own alphabet, made of just two signs: 0 and 1. Every photo, song and message is stored as a very long line of them.

Bit and byte

A bit is the smallest piece of computer data: one 0 or one 1. Eight bits together make one byte, which is just enough to store one letter, like A.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂)

A gas that goes into the air whenever we burn fuel: in cars, planes, power stations. Too much of it warms the whole planet up.

Chatbot

A computer programme you can chat with: you type or say something, and it writes or talks back. Many chatbots use AI to guess good words for an answer, so they can sound clever and still be wrong.

Climate change

The Earth getting warmer, year after year, mostly because we burn coal, oil and gas. It brings more heatwaves, floods and stronger storms. AI helps scientists measure it and predict what comes next.

Code

Instructions written in a special language that computers understand. They tell the computer exactly what to do, step by step. A set of code that does one job is called a programme.

CPU

The “brain” chip of a computer. It follows instructions one after another, very, very fast, so everything you ask the computer to do gets done.

Creativity

Making something that was not there before: a story, a tune, a way out of a problem. AI can rearrange what it has seen; deciding what is worth making is yours.

Curiosity

Wanting to know how something works, and asking until you do. It is the one thing every good scientist, engineer and artist has in common.

Cyber attack

When someone tries to break into computers to steal, damage or block what is on them. AI can help spot the attempt early.

Data

All the information an AI learns from: photos, words, numbers, sounds. AI learns from data and works with it. Good data helps make a good AI; messy or unfair data can make a messy or unfair one.

Data centre

A huge building full of computers that run day and night. Big AIs learn and work in data centres, which use lots of electricity, and water to keep them cool.

Deep learning

Machine learning with a neural network that has lots of layers. “Deep” means many layers, not deep thoughts. Many of today’s AIs, like the ones that recognise faces or voices, learn this way.

Deepfake

A fake video, photo or voice recording made by AI that looks or sounds real, but isn't. Always double-check!

Deforestation

Cutting down a forest faster than it can grow back. Satellites and AI can see it happening from space, almost as it happens.

Diagnosis

Working out which illness someone actually has. A machine can spot something odd in a picture; naming the illness and deciding what to do is a doctor’s job.

Disability

Something about a person’s body or mind that makes parts of the world harder to use, like not being able to see a screen, hear a voice, or climb stairs. Good design fixes the world, not the person.

Eco-friendly

Kind to the planet: using less energy, making less rubbish, doing less harm to animals, plants and air.

Ethics

Thinking carefully about what is right and wrong, and what is fair. For AI, ethics asks questions like: Is this AI fair to everyone? Who could it hurt?

Fake News

False information made to look true, sometimes written or spread by AI. That's why checking your sources matters!

Flu outbreak

When a lot of people in the same place catch flu at the same time. Spotting one early gives hospitals time to get ready.

Gene

A tiny instruction inside your body that helps decide things like your eye colour. You have about 20,000 different genes, and for most of them you get one copy from each parent.

Green AI

Building and running AI so that it uses as little energy as possible: smaller AI models, cleaner electricity, and machines that are not left running for nothing.

Hallucination

When AI makes something up and says it as if it were true. It is not lying on purpose. It is guessing what sounds right. Check anything that matters.

Hardware

The parts of a computer you can actually touch: the screen, the keyboard, the chips inside.

Humanities

Subjects like history, ethics and philosophy that help us understand people, society and right from wrong, skills AI still can't fully replace.

Innovate

To make something that did not exist before, or find a much better way of doing something. Inventing, improving, trying the idea nobody has tried yet.

Labelling data

Adding the right answer to each example so an AI can learn from it, like writing “cat” on a photo of a cat. People often do this by hand. If the labels are wrong, the AI learns mistakes.

Machine Learning

The way AI learns. Nobody writes the rules down: the computer looks at thousands of examples and works the rules out for itself.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

A medical scan that takes pictures inside your body. AI can help doctors read some MRIs faster and spot diseases earlier.

AI model

What an AI has become after training: the part that does the answering, spotting or predicting. Like a recipe someone has learnt by heart.

Monitor

To keep watching something so you notice the moment it changes. A machine that monitors a patient checks their heartbeat and breathing all night without getting tired.

Neural network

An AI made of lots of tiny maths parts, called artificial neurons, joined together in layers. Each part passes a number on to the next one. The idea came from the brain, but it works very differently.

Over-Reliance

Depending on AI so much that you stop thinking for yourself. Always use your own brain too!

Pandemic

When an illness spreads to lots of countries around the world at the same time, like the coronavirus did in 2020. AI can help spot the first signs early.

Pattern

Something that keeps coming back: the same shape, the same word, the same colour. Finding patterns is the thing AI is best at.

Personalised

Made to fit one person. A personalised lesson goes slower where you find it hard and faster where you don’t.

Power grid

The web of cables that carries electricity from where it is made to every house, school and hospital. A "smart" grid uses AI to send power where it is needed.

Privacy

Your right to keep personal information (like your name, address or photos) safe and only shared with people you trust.

Professionals

People who are trained to do a particular job and are paid for it: a doctor, a pilot, a teacher, an engineer.

Protein

A tiny machine inside every living thing. Proteins build your muscles, carry oxygen and fight germs. AI can now guess their shape, which helps scientists look for new medicines.

RAM

The computer’s short-term memory. It holds what you are working on right now, so the computer can reach it quickly. When you switch the computer off, it forgets it all.

Reinforcement learning

A way for AI to learn by trying things out. It gets points for good moves and loses points for bad ones, until it finds what works best. Like levelling up in a game.

Repetitive

The same thing over and over again. People get bored and start making mistakes; a computer does not mind at all.

Satellite

A machine that flies around the Earth, high up in space. Some satellites take pictures of the ground, and AI can spot changes in them, like a forest being cut down.

Scan

A picture of the inside of a body, taken by a machine instead of a camera: an x-ray, an MRI, an ultrasound.

Software

The programmes that tell the hardware what to do. You cannot touch software. It is instructions, written as code.

Solar panel

A flat panel that turns sunlight into electricity. AI helps work out where to put them and when to tilt them at the sun.

Supervised learning

A way for AI to learn from examples that already have the right answer on them, like photos labelled “cat” or “dog”. A bit like practising with flashcards.

Surveillance

Watching people to see what they do, with cameras, phones or computers. Watching people in secret can hurt their privacy, so many countries have rules about when it is allowed.

Sustainable

Done in a way that can go on for a very long time without using up the planet: taking only as much as can grow back, and wasting as little as possible.

Transparency

Being open about how something works, so people can see inside it, like looking through a window. With a transparent AI, people can find out how it made a decision.

UI/UX design

Designing how an app or website looks and how it feels to use: where the buttons go, what happens when you tap one, and whether the whole thing makes sense.

Unsupervised learning

A way for AI to learn when nobody gives it the answers. It looks through lots of data and puts things that are alike into groups, all on its own.

Vaccine

A medicine that teaches your body how to fight an illness before you ever catch it. AI helps scientists find new vaccines faster.