Hi guys! Marina Ventura here… your adventurer into the wonders of the world! I’m on a mission to explore one of the biggest adventures of the 21st century… the world of Artificial Intelligence and how it can benefit our future energy. Wanna come too? Excellent!

You might be wondering why it’s important to learn about AI. Learning about Al can be a lot of fun! It’s like discovering a whole new world, one where machines can learn and think for themselves. If you get involved in AI, maybe one day – not too far off – you might be inventing the next big thing to make our lives better. That could be an AI sandwich sorter or a robot dance coach, or how we could live on Mars.

Guess what? You don’t need to be a computer genius to get involved. You may not believe it, but if you play with Lego and Minecraft or have asked Alexa a question, you already have the skills and experience to start learning, and it’s not all about coming up with new technology… it can help you be creative!

But… CAN AI be really creative? Like paint-a-picture, write-a-song, design-a-game creative?

Well, kind of! AI learns from examples – using data it’s given is like a mega cookbook. It combines different elements – or recipes, to come up with something that fits your brief! It might not get inspired by a pretty sunset, but it can mix what it knows in surprising new ways!

So you could work with AI to try out new colours, rhythms or even invent a new dance trend. Like… the robo-bop!

Collab alert! You and AI could be the ultimate creative duo!

Now, why should YOU learn about AI? Well, because it’s going to be everywhere in the future – and we need bright young minds like yours to help guide it. Energy companies, hospitals, engineers, artists, scientists, even chefs – all kinds of people will harness AI to make the world better. And that means a lot of new jobs…

You could be a robo-vet, a solar system simulator, or an AI ethicist who makes sure computers make fair decisions.

And that’s going to be one of the most important jobs – computers only know what’s right and wrong based on what we tell them – in the programmes they use to carry out our instructions. And by right and wrong it’s not something like just failing a maths test – it’s about what’s ethically right – making sure the solutions and suggestions it gives us aren’t harmful or unfair – such as using data that it doesn’t have permission to include in its algorithms.

So you can see how programmers are going to be super important – and there’s bound to be some fun jobs along the way! How about being a laughter coder – someone who teaches robots how to tell jokes?

MARINA MISSION!

So now over to you! I want you to have a think about what would you create with AI? Perhaps an app that creates your own soundtrack as you go about your day based on what you’re seeing, smelling and perhaps tasting, or perhaps or a pillow that whispers bedtime stories while adjusting to your dreams!

Or maybe AI-Powered Smart Glasses that could provide you with your own personal library of knowledge as well as route navigation and language translation.

They’d be super cool when on holiday and visiting other countries.

We want to hear your ideas – either in word or as a picture. Perhaps you could use AI to help you create your idea.

And you never know, one day, your AI invention could become real!

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