Roosevelt students learn AI is less about killer robots and more about identifying fruits | Los Angeles Times

While the phrase artificial intelligence may conjure up images of killer machines like those in the movies “The Terminator” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the reality is a far cry from fiction and a lot more human-friendly by Andy Nguyen, public safety reporter for the Burbank Leader and Glendale News Press.

Students at Roosevelt Middle School raise their hands after being asked if any of them have done any computer programming during a panel discussion about artificial intelligence held at the campus on Sept. 16 as part of Glendale Tech Week.
Photo: Tim Berger / Glendale News-Press

Students at Roosevelt Middle School on Monday got a crash course about the reality of artificial intelligence, thanks to a panel discussion led by employees from Beyond Limits, a Glendale-based company that specializes in the technology.

Laura Marsh, a Beyond Limits software engineer, said one of the goals of artificial intelligence is be able to help people and companies be more efficient while working to be able to automate menial tasks....

The program would be fed hundreds of photos of the two fruits and, as it sorts through them all, the program will start to recognize the different shapes, textures and colors of the fruits and group them accordingly...

Kyle Bruich, Roosevelt’s principal, said that because the campus will soon be rebranded as a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, or STEAM, academy, he wanted the school to be involved with the weeklong event.
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