Today’s Goals:
- Hour of Code: Finish programming a progress bar in JavaScript
- Hour of Code: Explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is influencing websites and apps
Programming a Progress Bar in JavaScript
- We are coding a progress bar in JavaScript inside of a Google Slide presentation
- Question: Why are we able to manipulate Google Apps with JavaScript? Hint: consider how you launch and use Google Apps
- Video tutorials: Full list (picking up with video #4)
- Finished demo: View presentation with progress bar
- Options: follow along with me OR work at your own pace following the videos (use headphones)
- Tools: web browser and Google account (personal or school)
- Submit for credit: SHARE your Google Slide presentation with me if you haven’t do so yet! Share with agoldsberry@medford.k12.ma.us
Today’s featured sites/apps:
- Artificial intelligence (AI): “the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.”
- Some examples:
Social media– feeds curated by AI as you interact with Instragram, Snapchat, etc.
Amazon Echo– this device is trained to recognize human voices and respond to their questions by using key words and commands to find answers
Automated customer support– online chatbots that answer your questions
Apple iPhones (8 and up)– facial recognition to unlock your phone; a camera that detects what kind of photo is being taken and tries to distinguish people from the background
Netflix– uses your view history and ratings to suggest things to watch via “advanced predictive technology” - Short video overview #1: https://youtu.be/mJeNghZXtMo
- Short video overview #2: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai/
- AI-created websites! AI is being used to build websites; let’s take a look at some builders.
- Showcase of sites/apps powered by artificial intelligence:
https://gradeproof.com– proof-reading tool
https://transformer.huggingface.co– writing tool
Chatty, your robot-friend app
https://www.ampermusic.com/music/– compose music with the help of a computer (see this video)
https://pacemaker.net/– an AI DJ
http://mosaicapp.io/index.html– use AI to improve your Instagram photos
https://generated.photos/– AI creates models who don’t exist
https://www.fitnessai.co/– AI generated workout
https://smartmoderation.com/– AI is used to remove profane and inappropriate comments from your social media
http://www.botlibre.org/– you’ll just have to see this to experience it (and hopefully our wifi is working)
https://www.faceapp.com/– transform your face using AI
https://www.getatelier.app/– AI assisted art
https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ and https://www.autodraw.com/– Google’s AI experiments for doodling
https://spectre.cam/, an iPhone app that uses AI to give you a long exposure shot without all of the work!
Finally, IBM’s Project Debator