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title: Smart or Just Predictable?
units: [Problem Solving With AI]
summary: AI is better suited for certain tasks.
weight: 40
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## Today's Objectives
- Compare AI and human performance to identify AI’s strengths and weaknesses.
- Evaluate AI’s reliability and when human oversight is needed.
- Justify when AI should or shouldn’t be used in real-world cases.

## Lesson Overview
### What level of AI involvement are you comfortable with?
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Let's do a vote for multiple scenarios:

1. Just human
2. Highly restricted AI involvement
3. Moderately restricted AI involvement
4. Slightly restricted AI involvement
5. Unrestricted AI involvement
6. Just AI

Scenarios:

- Diagnosing Medical Issues
- Grading Essays
- Driving a School Bus

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### What does it mean to say AI hallucinates?
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## Assignment
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### Human vs AI Response Comparison
For each task, think about how a human would do compared to AI. Rank each on the following categories:

- Speed: 1 (extremely slow) - 5 (extremely fast)
- Accuracy: 1 (extremely inaccurate) - 5 (extremely accurate)
- Creativity: 1 (not at all creative) - 5 (extremely creative)

After completing Code.org, rank how AI did on the task, then explain whether or not you would recommend using AI for a similar task in the future.

Tasks:

1. Solving a Math Problem
2. Answering a Creative Question
3. Providing Historical or Technical Information

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