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Budding Physics students had the opportunity to take part in a practical and informative workshop.
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Budding Physics students had the opportunity to take part in a practical and informative workshop.
Question:What do these pictures have in common?
What do these pictures have in Common?
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The College was delighted to welcome back Peter Barclay from Hyett Education, who gave some of our Year 7 and 8 students an informative talk and workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Mr Barclay introduced students to the subject and explained that whilst coding was the process of making a robot or machine behave by giving it instructions as to what you would like it to, Artificial Intelligence centres around giving a machine a command and letting it decide how it will fulfil the instruction.
A striking moment in the session, including a screening, featuring a robot that has been trained to not just walk, run and crawl like a human, but to also do more complex moves including dancing and cartwheels!
As well as making references to Chat GPT and outlining some of its advantages of AI, Mr Barclay also explored some of its limitations and how external factors can affect its performance including…
The Importance of Precision
Weather Conditions (such as fog)
Initial Information provided to the system
Question:How long did an AI Machine take to master a game of Chess? Please click here for the answer...
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In a session focussed towards how machines see the environment around them, students were given a practical task of training their small machines to recognise images.
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Can the students programme their mini machines to pick out an unidentified vessel against some of His Majesty’s famous vessels in the Armed Forces?
Students had a go at training their mini computers to recognise images of famous vessels including…
HMS Astute |
HMS Vanguard |
HMS Queen Elizabeth |
…to see if they could then scan pictures of these, identify which vessel it is looking at and whether it is an unidentified craft.
As a bonus challenge, students were also given the amusing task of making their own paper planes and using their machines to launch them towards a set target.
This informative and entertaining workshop was presented under the EKO (Engagement, Knowledge, Opportunities) series following a visit last year where Mr Barclay delivered a Robotics workshop, which also focussed on engineering and problem solving.
Students had the opportunity to construct and programme their own basic robots, as well as use their engineering skills to problem-solve and complete challenges that may be encountered in real-life.
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We would like to thank Mr Barclay for delivering the workshop today and we hope to offer our students more scientific opportunities soon.