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AI software for classroom, SimCity
Name: Jimmy Pack
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Date: Around 1993
Question:
I would like some information on a good software example to use
to demonstrate AI in my classroom. I know that some people use simulations
like SimCity. What do you think?
Replies:
I am no expert on AI, but I have played SimCity, and I do not think
it has very much to do with Artificial Intelligence! If you want to show your
class how computers can be used to simulate the behaviors of everyday objects,
that may be a good example. Climate modelling, new materials and drugs, and
even the interactions between particles in the nucleus are all very advanced
uses of computers in basically the same fashion. You put things together and
see what the simulation puts out...There are various kinds of "artificial
intelligence" that you might want to discuss, if that really is what you had
in mind. Neural networks, expert systems, and the language LISP all have been
touted as showing "artificial intelligence", but it may be hard to get
examples that young students could follow. The best example, perhaps, may be
if you can get hold of a speech synthesizer, a language translator, or even
something that recognizes human speech - good luck!
Arthur Smith
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