Welcome to PLIX LLM-Algorithm Arcade! Play and adapt familiar games to learn the FUNdamentals of artificial intelligence!
🥰 Ages 10+ 🕐 30-60 minutes 👩👧👦 up to 15 Participants 🍎 1–2 Facilitators 🎨 Craft Materials
What We ❤️ About This Activity
LLM Algorithm Arcade introduces learners to foundational AI concepts without using AI. It is playfully and thoughtfully designed to embody machine learning and word vectorization in large language models (LLMs), and can serve as a starting point for AI media literacy.
Imagine
Activities can be adapted in many ways. Here are some ideas to help you imagine how your activity might look like.
Remix an idea prompt
Doodle your interests and hobbies, guess what other people might like, and toss it at them!
Learn and discuss: how machine learning might predict what you would like on social media
Available in our illustrated game guides
Answer questions using only the words from a single poem
Learn and discuss: database biases in machine learning
Available in our illustrated game guides
Build a sentence together using magnet words, and vote on the next word each time.
Learn and discuss: how word vectorization works in large language models, and how this might affect your trust in AI
Available in our illustrated game guides
Learn and discuss: embody the process of machine learning algorithms, and wonder about what fits and doesn’t fit
Available in our illustrated game guides
Learn and discuss: biases that may be invisible in AI responses
Learn and discuss: datasets of images and how they might restrict creative outputs
Prepare
Gather Materials
For Social Media Toss-up
For PoeticGPT
For Build-a-sentence-bear
For Animal-gorithm Print and cut our animal card deck or doodle your own dataset deck of illustrated animals, food, or other categories of things
…or…
For Apples-to-Apples-to-AI-biases
Print and cut our bias card deck, or collectively create a set to use
… or…
Review and Print Resources
PLIX Zines are a supplementary resource for learners and librarians to refer to. Use our guide to cut and assemble them on 8.5x11" paper.
Play along with our illustrated game guides to learn FUNdamental AI concepts, and adapt them for your context!
Love our zine, but it doesn’t fit your adaptation of the activity? Remix our zine with this Google Slides template!
Facilitate
Tips
This activity is designed to invite learners of all backgrounds to play together and embody AI concepts. The materials used in this activity are intentionally low-cost and friendly to encourage participants to make changes to these games, mess around, make mistakes, and experiment.
🙋🏼♂️ Missing something? Invite learners to add their own cards…
…to the card decks. For example, our animal card deck does not include humans.
➕ We learn from you!
If you’ve used this activity, we would love to hear your tips and reflections so we can grow our collective skill in offering this activity to diverse learners.
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About PLIX LLM-Algorithm Arcade
This activity is based on MIT STEP Lab’s Kate Moore’s work on Developing AI Literacy (DAILy) curriculum for the Everyday AI professional development project. Learn more at everyday-ai.org
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