Week 1 — AI palyantja nyangatja / How AI works
Pitj: AI nyangatja big computer system. Tjana data pulkanya nintiringu — words pulka, pictures pulka, kuwari computer-ngka. Mungartji palya kulinytjaku — AI ngayulu wiya kulini anangu-kuti. AI ngayulu pattern kulini munu watjani next word. Iriti same — same way text-message-lu autocomplete palyani.
Eng: An AI is a big computer system. It was trained on huge amounts of data — words, pictures, internet. It does not think like a person. It looks at patterns and guesses the next word, the same way autocomplete on your phone does.
Learning objectives / Tjukurpa nintiringkunytjaku
- AI nintiringkunytjaku — palyantja nyangatja (large language model, image generator)
- AI mulapa kutjara: predicts, classifies, generates — kutju kutju
- Anangu-ku phone-ngka AI nyangatja — search, social media, photo app, autocorrect
Discussion / Wangkanyi mara
- Week-pa mungartji wiya — AI palyantja nyaa kulira? Munu kuwari? Same?
- Phone-ngka AI nyangatja — nyaa? List palyani mara.
- AI guess-mani next word — nyaa question palya, nyaa question wiya palya?
- Tjitji puḻka mama-ngka: anangu pakaringkula nintiringkunytjaku tjitji-ku AI-tjara, nyaa pulka? Mama tjitji-ngka: nyaa nintiringkunytjaku pulka?
Activity / Palyani: “Same question, three tools”
Pitj: Question kutju palyani — same question — tjana three tool tjuṯangka watjala (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Google search). Watjala mara: tjana same answer? Tjana different? Tjana source watjala — source mulamula? Tjana strong answer — strong answer mulamula correct?
Eng: Pick one question you both care about (e.g., “What should we cook this week on a budget?” or “What caused World War I?”). Ask the same question in three different tools — for example ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and a regular Google search. Compare the answers: - Where do they agree? - Where do they disagree? - Which one cites sources? Are the sources real? - Which felt most confident? Was confidence the same as correctness?
Write one sentence each about what surprised you.
Parent resources / Mama-ngunytju-ku watjala
Reflection / Tjukurpa unngu
“Week-pa mungartji wiya — AI kulira ngayuku ___. Kuwari kulira ___.” “Before this week I thought AI was ___. Now I think it is ___.”