This is the second book about AI that I’ve written, but the first for a very young audience. It targets elementary school readers.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Focus Readers, January 2020
Next year, my book Strange But True: The Future will come out. It includes a chapter that predicts what the future of AI may look like.
In order to write about a topic for kids, you have to thoroughly understand it. You can’t just reiterate what others have written about the topic. You have to understand so well that you can put it into simple terms and make analogies. And you have to keep the attention of a small person who will get excited if a garbage truck or a spider happens by.
Writing for kids is not easy.
And Deep Learning may be the trickiest thing I’ve ever had to explain to kids. I’m no computer science expert. So I’ve had to rely on others’ explanations. I’ve read numerous articles and books explaining the gist of how machine learning algorithms work.
This article was one that really made it all click for me:
A ‘Brief’ History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning by Andrey Kurenkov
Hopefully some of my young readers will go on to understand the topic even more thoroughly than I ever will, and will help invent new methods of machine learning.
