Bastien Masse, Project Manager at the UNESCO Chair in Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence, uses a simple, fun way of explaining complex mechanisms to introduce students to the technology behind the scenes.
Today, young people are evolving in an increasingly digital environment, where the pace of advances and progress in artificial intelligence and algorithms makes it crucial to educate students about the issues surrounding them.
At the Stendhal middle school in Nantes, Bastien Masse runs an introductory workshop on algorithms and artificial intelligence for young mathematics students. To grasp one of the key concepts of artificial intelligence - reinforcement learning - he invites the youngsters to play the hexapawn game, with the aim of understanding how algorithms work. In his view, it's essential to train students, right from the end of middle school, to understand algorithms, artificial intelligence and the issues involved.
Hexapawn game rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapawn
