Taught in Base Camp · Unit 8
How machines learn from data
Features, labels, training and testing: how a model finds a pattern in examples instead of following rules someone wrote down.
For parents · Classes 7 to 10
Your child already uses AI. Here’s how they learn how it works.
Why does a chatbot give a different answer each time? How does an app learn to tell things apart? Your child finds out by playing with working models, writing a little Python and testing what they know against the national AI Olympiad’s syllabus.
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- Nothing to install
- No coding experience needed
Try it now · k-nearest neighbours
How does a computer learn to tell things apart?
One simple way: look at the closest examples it already knows, and let them vote. Tap or drag the ringed point on the plot, then change k, the number of neighbours that get a vote.
What they’ll understand
Four ideas behind the AI tools they use.
Each one has a short guide to read and a simulator to play with, all free. Open any of them now.
Taught in Base Camp · Unit 9
Why AI gets things wrong
Why high accuracy can hide a useless model, why a model can memorise instead of learn, and how to test one fairly.
Taught in Base Camp · Unit 7Summit · Unit 11
How chatbots choose words
Tokens, chances and temperature: why replies vary, why fluent text is not the same as a checked fact, and how to write a clear prompt.
Taught in Base Camp · Unit 7Summit · Unit 11
Fairness
How one model can treat two groups differently, why deleting a column doesn’t delete the bias, and what a fairer threshold costs.
Guide Simulator
How they learn
Play with it, read about it, then prove it.
Short sessions on most days. Even the short video lessons stop every minute or two to ask a question: your child does something on every screen.
20 simulators
Move a slider, drag a point, toss a coin a thousand times. Each one shows an idea working, and each is free.
A guide for each of 41 topics
The idea in plain words, a worked example and the usual traps, with a few check questions at the end.
Python in the browser
Real Python from Base Camp Unit 5, with nothing to install. Code is checked automatically against hidden tests, so your child knows at once whether it works.
Questions with worked explanations
Original questions, every one with a worked explanation, at three tiers: Trail, Ridge and Peak.
A real yardstick
The path builds up to questions on the national AI Olympiad’s syllabus, so understanding has a clear, demanding measure.
The yardstick
Why the Olympiad syllabus is a good measure.
“Learning AI” can mean anything. A national syllabus, written for school students, makes it specific.
Set by ACM India
It is the syllabus of the Indian National AI Olympiad (INAIO), run by ACM India as India’s route to the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI).
It tests understanding, not tool use
The syllabus covers logic, probability, algorithms and how models are trained and measured, then hands-on Python with data. Stage 1 allows no AI tools.
No pressure to compete
INAIO is open to Classes 9 to 12, and taking part is your family’s choice. The syllabus is a useful map either way.
A question on the simulator you just tried. Nearest neighbours is one of the methods on the INAIO Stage 1 syllabus. Pick an answer to see the explanation.
Try one · Base Camp · Unit 8 · How machines learn
Why can k = 3 nearest neighbours be safer than k = 1?
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