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Explorers · Ages 8–10
Meet the AI helpers, make your first picture with AI, and learn the rules of being kind online.
Meet your guide: Fig — a curious fox
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People give AIs tests called benchmarks. But passing a test is not the same as being truly smart. Let's find out why.
For a long time, AI was okay. Then people made it bigger and fed it more. Suddenly, it got way better. Let's see why.
A prompt is what you type to an AI. Clear asks get clear answers. Learn the difference between a fuzzy question and a sharp one.
The AI doesn't know your age, grade, or what book you're reading. If you tell it, the answer fits you. If you don't, it guesses wrong.
The first answer is almost never the best answer. Great prompters try, look at what came back, and tweak. Small changes make huge differences. Not even the person who made the AI.
It feels magical, but the AI can't know what's in your head. Secrets, surprises, unspoken assumptions — you have to say them out loud.
Piling five questions into one prompt confuses the AI and confuses you. Ask one. Read the answer. Then ask the next.
AI chats can be read by other people and saved forever. Some information never belongs in a prompt, no matter what the AI asks.
When you want something explained simply, ask the AI to explain it like you're a younger kid. This trick works at every age and every level.
The AI remembers what you asked earlier in the same chat. That means you can ask 'why?' and 'what about...?' like a real conversation.
AI can now make pictures and videos that look absolutely real. Here are the signs to look for and the habits that will keep you smart.
A deepfake is a fake video or voice that looks and sounds like a real person. Here is what they are, why they hurt people, and what to do if you see one.
Type a sentence, get a picture. Sounds magical — and it kind of is. Let's make your very first AI image and learn what the machine is actually doing.
One tiny word can turn a sketch into a painting, a photo, or a cartoon. Let's learn the style words that unlock the biggest changes with the least typing. It's like having a costume closet for your prompt.
AI pictures look real — sometimes too real. Here's how to train your eyes to spot the clues that tell you 'a machine made this.'
AI can draw anyone into anything — and that's exactly why we have to be careful. This is the most important lesson in the whole creative track.
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all chat with you, but they are not the same helper. Here is how to tell them apart like friends at recess.
You don't have to type. Most AI helpers can listen and talk back. Here is how voice mode works and when to use it.
AI can help with homework without doing it for you. Learn the line between cheating and studying smart.
Three different helpers, three different superpowers. Learn when each one gives you the best answer.
You might hear your parent say they pay for ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. Here is what that means and why they do it.
A super-simple map you can use any time you are stuck. Start at the top, answer a few questions, and land on the right helper.
Stuck on a reading assignment? AI can summarize any story. But if you use that instead of reading, you will be lost in class tomorrow.
History class is full of old letters, diaries, and speeches. AI can help you read them, but you still have to think like a detective.
Type a sentence. Get a picture. It feels like magic. Let's make your first one together and talk about where the pictures come from.
If English is not your first language, AI can help you learn faster. But there is a smart way and a lazy way to use it.
You can ask AI about any song. Why it sounds happy. What instrument that is. Where the style came from. Music theory becomes less scary.
Data is just recorded facts. Everything around you, from your heartbeat to your Spotify history, can become data. That storage is what lets AI learn from it later.
Some data fits neatly into boxes. Some data is a messy glob of text, images, or audio. Both matter, but they are handled very differently. AI gives us tools to finally make sense of the messy pile that humans have been producing for centuries.
Almost every dataset you will meet in AI starts as a table. Rows are examples. Columns are features. Learn this and half the battle is won.
A research preview posted on a Wednesday became the fastest-growing consumer product in history.