Train your AI Model

Remember:
Healthy predictions need healthy data
!

Healthy
dataset

Finds
correct
patterns

Healthy
prediction!

Correct actions or decisions!

Do you remember what makes a healthy dataset?

  • Lots of data
  • Accurate
  • Matches your problem and solution
  • Different examples of data
  • The right kind of data
  • You have permission to use it

IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO START TRAINING YOUR DATA!

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You should have gathered your data by now… or at least started!

WHETHER IT’S…

Your own training data from your community

and/or

Data gathered from sensors or user input

and/or

strings of numbers

Data collected from public datasets

Click on a platform name below to learn more and try out some tutorials.

teachablemachine.withgoogle.com
  • Train images, sounds or poses
  • teachable machine screenshotAttach devices to capture sensor data
Google’s Teachable Machine lets you easily train AI models that can be used with other platforms. In this video, learn a little about Teachable Machine and training an AI model that you can later used to make a Scratch project, or an app with MIT App Inventor.

Here are three tutorials to try out Teachable Machine using different data types.

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  • Train images, sounds, text, or numbers
With your trained dataset  you can:
  • Make a Scratch or Python project
  • Or a mobile app with App Inventor
This video is an example of a Technovation team who created SkinClin, a Scratch project to detect skin diseases using Machine Learning for Kids.

This video is an example of a Technovation team using Machine Learning for Kids to make a mobile app to sort biomedical waste.

TRY IT YOURSELF!

In this video, see how to take the Iris public dataset from Unit 6 and train it using Machine Learning for Kids. 

Then in the next unit, you can use it in a Scratch project!

appinventor.mit.edu

  • app inventor bee logoTrain images, sounds, or poses
  • With your trained dataset you can make a mobile app that uses AI.

WANT TO TRY IT?

In this video, see how you can use the App Inventor image classifier to train an image dataset. This dataset classifies healthy fruit vs diseased fruit.

Then in the next unit, see how to use your model in a mobile app!

ACTIVITY: TRAIN YOUR MODEL

  • Choose the AI tool you want to use for your Technovation Project.
  • Add your examples.
  • Train and test your AI model.

Best practices: Training models is hard! Even Google gets it wrong. Their AI was trained but still started outputting wrong results! Don’t give up!

Guiding Questions to ask students: How accurate do you want your AI model to be? If it can not be 100% accurate, what is an acceptable answer? 80% of the time? Does that depend on the risk of what you are using the model for? For example self driving cars have to be pretty accurate otherwise they might hurt someone but google search results apparently have a much lower bar. 

Mentor tips are provided by support from AmeriCorps.

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