Conversational AI with Zhorai

Resources

Project Link

Github

Teacher Guide

Presentation

Team

Jessica Van Brummelen CSAIL, MIT

Phoebe Lin GSD, Harvard

Galit Lukin ORC, MIT

Publications

P. Lin, J. Van Brummelen, G. Lukin, R. Williams, C. Breazeal, “Zhorai: Designing A Conversational Agent For Children To Explore ML Concepts”, In Symp. On Edu. Adv. In Artificial Intelligence At AAAI (2020).

Zhorai

Zhorai is a platform in which grade 3-5 students talk to an artificially intelligent conversational agent to learn about natural interaction with machines, how machines learn, how machines represent knowledge and reason about information, and the social impact of such agents. Students teach the agent about animals and the agent guesses which ecosystem the animal comes from using prior knowledge. In the process, students learn about machine perception and reasoning, as well as AI ethics.