Robots can't read your mind, but they can read your handwriting. The fifth installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence video series looks at how to program an AI to read handwriting with a multi-layer perceptron neural network. An accompanying lab activity challenges scholars to create such a program using an imported data set.

Concepts

artificial intelligence, handwriting, computer code, technology resources

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Instructional Ideas

• Team up with a computer science teacher for the lab activity
  

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a Google account and Internet access to use the project page
  
• Learners should be familiar with machine learning and neural networks
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Thoroughly explains each step of the process
• Interesting and informative video
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.11-12.2