🤖 Helper Bot
Build a tiny chatbot that answers kind, friendly questions. You decide what it knows and what it says back.
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🔎 What you'll discover about AI
A simple chatbot matches what someone types to answers you gave it. If the words do not match anything it knows, it gets stuck. You teach it what to understand.
🛠 AI helpers you could use
- Machine Learning for Kids — ask a grown-up to set up an account with you
- Scratch — works together with Machine Learning for Kids
- Or use your favourite chatbot-building tool
Tip: you can always use your favourite AI helper instead — just keep a grown-up nearby.
🪜 How to build it
Day 1
- Decide what your bot helps with, like cheering people up or telling jokes.
- Make a list of kind questions people might ask it.
Day 2
- Set up your project and teach it some example questions (the training).
- Write a friendly answer for each kind of question.
Day 3
- Test it by typing questions in different ways and see if it understands.
- Add more example questions where it got confused, then test again.
🧪 Researcher's question
Ask your bot something you never taught it. What does it say? How many different ways can you ask the same question before it stops understanding?