Geek of the Week
A weekly playground where the AI lets loose: small, hands-on gadgets about how AI works.
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Convolution: the 3×3 grid where machine vision begins
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Draw a shape and watch a tiny 3×3 filter find its edges, blur it, or sharpen it. It is the exact operation that powers convolutional neural networks.
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Tic-Tac-Toe Minimax: the machine that refuses to lose
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Play noughts and crosses against a machine that reads every possible future and never loses. Watch it score each move, win, draw, or loss, before it plays.
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Markov Babbler: the original next-word machine
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Long before ChatGPT, machines guessed the next word by counting. Feed this tiny model any text and watch it babble, one dice-roll at a time.
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Perceptron Playground: teach a 1958 brain-cell to draw a line
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Drop two colours of dots on a field and watch a single perceptron nudge a straight line until it separates them, or gets gloriously stuck.