Challenge #2:
The World of Artificial Intelligence

Well hello there again!

It’s nice to see you back here after getting off to an awesome start with the Google Doodle Challenge #1. We hope you liked our easy-peasy start to the Future New Worlds Tour and are ready to learn more about what is powering our future industries. Welcome to the world of Artificial Intelligence.

>>>>> Innovation: powering future industries

CSIRO aims to solve the greatest challenges facing the nation using innovative science and technology.

CSIRO’s CINTEL (Collaborative Intelligence) Future Science Platform seeks to develop the science and technology to enable humans and AI (Artificial Intelligence) to work together, to achieve better outcomes than either working alone.

>>>>>> Industry insider tips / points of interest

Q and A with our friends at CSIRO

Q: What are some of the industries AI will disrupt?

A: AI is disrupting many industries from science processes, manufacturing, banking, shopping, education to public transport management.

Because AI affects so many industries, people working in AI/ML come from lots of different backgrounds. Many people will combine study or learning in AI/ML with expertise in another area (eg. Science, economics or healthcare).

Q: Does CSIRO support women working there?

A: CSIRO is committed to supporting gender diversity in STEM. We are a member of a program called Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) that aims to make science more inclusive to all genders.

CINTEL is led by a woman Dr C (Dr Cécile Paris) and our group includes female and non-binary people from a range of backgrounds, including computer science, mechanical engineering, psychology, project management, astronomy and bioinformatics.

Q: What type of career pathways does CSIRO offer?

A: CSIRO is a government agency with about 6000 people based all over Australia. Many employees enter CSIRO after completing university undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in STEM fields. CSIRO also has traineeships and work experience programs for students starting from Year 10, as well as programs for Indigenous students.

Q: Are soft skills also important in the AI/ML field?

A: Absolutely! Some important soft skills include:

Communication: To build great collaborative AI, we need to talk with the people who will be using the AI to better understand their needs.
Teamwork: AI/ML is often developed by teams of people with different training and skills.
Creativity: A creative spark helps drive new innovative AI discoveries.

>>>>> CSIRO Challenge#2: Working together with Artificial Intelligence

CSIRO is working together with Artificial Intelligence.

Enjoy 4 different types of AI activities from our friends at CSIRO:

Deepfake spotting 🕵️‍♀️
Cooking with ChatGPT 🕵️‍♀️
AI bias detection 🕵️‍♀️
AI-artist: your turn to play with AI 👩‍🎨🎨

Activity 1: Deepfake Spotting 🕵️‍♀️

Guess which is a real image and which is a fake created by AI?

Take the quiz >>>>>

Activity 2: Cooking with ChatGPT 🕵️‍♀️

It's Friday night and you find yourself craving something sweet! As you rummage through your kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, you discover you have maple syrup, coconut oil, butter, mayonnaise, oranges, chilli, peanuts, brown sugar, and vanilla essence.

Let's collaborate with ChatGPT to concoct a delectable recipe using these ingredients.

This is what ChatGPT inspires you to make (this is just a virtual exercise, do not undertake):

Remember, it’s very tempting to just go ahead and follow the recipe because it looks so authentic and well-structured (and delicious, of course!)

Activity 3: AI Bias Detection 🕵️‍♀️

The images in the next few slides are generated by Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion is an AI tool where you put in a word called a prompt. Then the AI tool will generate images based on that prompt.

Now you’re the detective and have to decide if the generated images accurately depict the prompt or do they have a bias.

Note: Some of the AI-generated images may have physical inaccuracies. You can ignore these while answering the questions.

These are images for the prompt “Engineer”

What about these?

Do you think the images accurately represent the prompt?

Yes / No

Why or why not?

These are images for the prompt “Nurse”

Do you think the images accurately represent the prompt?

Yes / No

Why or why not?

These are images for the prompt “a doctor”

And these, are they a good representation of images of a doctor?

Yes / No

Why or why not?

The answer is NO 🕵️‍♀️

The three groups are all representative of stereotypical images! All of the …

nurses are female.
engineers are male.
doctors are male.

Did you spot some other stereotypes in the images? 🕵️‍♀️

This is a clear example of how AI learns many of the biases that
are held by humans 🕵️‍♀️

We need to be aware of the presence of such biases when working with AI 🕵️‍♀️

Activity 4: Your turn to be an AI-artist 👩‍🎨🎨

We want you to become an AI-artist! You will use an AI art generator to create an image of: people and AI working together to do great science. This could be any kind of science – chemistry, biomedical science, zoology, social science...get creative! Remember to try some different prompts to see what you like best.

Here are the instructions. Make sure that you check with your teacher and/or parent/guardian first before clicking on the links.

Go to the website Stable Diffusion: https://stablediffusionweb.com/
Click on the “Get Started for Free” button.
Type your prompt into the “Entre your prompt” bar. Try out some different prompts until you get one you really like.
Take a screen shot of your AI generated artwork along with the words of your prompt to hello@gdostem.com.au Remember to put the challenge number in the subject line, example: CSIRO Challenge #2 and your name!! 😊