Zhorai

Zhorai

Zhorai is a platform in which grade 3-5 students talk to an artificially intelligent conversational agent to learn about natural interaction with machines, how machines learn, how machines represent knowledge and reason about information, and the social impact of such agents. Students teach the agent about animals and the agent guesses which ecosystem the animal comes from using prior knowledge. In the process, students learn about machine perception and reasoning, as well as AI ethics.

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Resources

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Team

Jessica Van Brummelen

CSAIL, MIT 

Phoebe Lin

GSD, Harvard 

Galit Lukin

ORC, MIT

 

Publications

P. Lin, J. Van Brummelen, G. Lukin, R. Williams, C. Breazeal, “Zhorai: Designing A Conversational Agent For Children To Explore ML Concepts”, In Symp. On Edu. Adv. In Artificial Intelligence At AAAI (2020).