VERSION B · Bac pro · B1 (lighter version)

Session 1: What is AI?

Part 1. What can AI do today?

Objectives

Warm-up

Three pictures: a phone assistant, a chess game, the robot Baymax. Real or fiction?

Documents

Short text. In 1997, a computer called Deep Blue beat the chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2016, AlphaGo beat the champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go. In 2022, ChatGPT arrived. These AIs are very good at one task. They cannot think like humans.
Easy to find on YouTube: "AlphaGo: The Movie", Google DeepMind official channel (watch the first minutes).

Activities

  1. Real or fiction: tick the box for eight sentences.
  2. Grammar: AI can... / AI cannot...
  3. Repeat the words: arTIficial, inTELligence, ROBot.

Sentence starters

Role play

Pairs: A asks: "Can AI drive a car?" B answers: "Yes, it can." or "No, it can't." Five questions each.

Gap-fill worksheet

QR code to this worksheet
Word bank: beat, champion, robot, computer, think, task
  1. Deep Blue was a ______.
  2. It ______ Garry Kasparov at chess.
  3. Lee Sedol was a Go ______.
  4. AI is good at one ______.
  5. AI cannot ______ like a human.
  6. Baymax is a fictional ______.
Answer key
  1. computer
  2. beat
  3. champion
  4. task
  5. think
  6. robot

Homework

Write a short paragraph (60 words): what AI can do, what it cannot do, and what it could do in the future.

Assessment grid

CriteriaLevel 1Level 2Level 3Level 4
VocabularyFew wordsSome wordsGood wordsMany words
Can / cannotNot correctSometimes correctMostly correctAlways correct

Links reminder