DIYA ACADEMY OF LEARNING

Affiliated to CBSE Board, New Delhi

Affiliation No. 830420

Artificial Intelligence
Code-417
Grade 8, 9

Bringing Education & Values Together

Curriculum

No. Unit Sub-Unit

1. Introduction to Excite, Relate, Purpose, Possibilities, AI
AI Ethics
2. AI Project Cycle Problem Scoping, Data Acquisition, Data
Exploration, Modelling
3. Neural Network
4 Introduction to
Python
5. Co- Curricular
skills
Why?
 Need to channelize learning towards applying innovative skills
and application
 To contribute towards a robust future in a sustainable world.
 Artificial intelligence is gaining the spotlight across

applications in our personal and professional lives.

Alongwith, students also need to be guided on recognizing the pros and cons of Artificial Intelligence and
on being able to differentiate between what is right and acceptable and what is not .
Unit 1 – Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence (Excite)
Excite
Intelligence and Computer
 When did you hear the term “Artificial Intelligence”?
 What was your first reaction?
 Who is more intelligent “Human” or “Computers”?
Introduction to AI and setting up the context of the curriculum

Learning Objectives:

 To identify and appreciate Artificial Intelligence and describe

its applications in daily life.
 To relate, apply and reflect on the Human-Machine

Interactions.
 To identify and interact with the three domains of AI.
But Do you know ?
Computer can be programmed to make intelligent decisions

We will try to answer these questions:

 What exactly is an intelligent decision?
 Is it a decision based on data gathered from personal

experience and experience of others?

 Real Life Examples
 What happens when you encounter a Hot Pot?
◦ Intelligence- ability to gain and apply knowledge and skills
◦ Ability to take your memory and then do
Intelligence
The ability to take real time decisions based on our Previous
experiences and Learnings

Human Intelligence

The ability to gain knowledge from our previous experience

and applying that knowledge in Real Time Scenarios
How will you relate this to computer?
Artificial Intelligence

The ability of a computer to Mimic the Learnings and Problem

Solving Ability present inside human beings
How is it possible?
A kd in Kindergarten

AaBb Cc Dd

Data Input
What is Right? What is Wrong?
In AI
We give our computer:

 Ability to Judge
 Ability to learn
 Ability to apply this knowledge
Who is he?
Clips from I,Robot movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOKEIE2puso
Aim: We will be able to..

AIM: To know how different is human

intelligence from artificial intelligence
Let us take an example
A self driving car, for eg: Tesla
Assume you be the programmer. You are asked to
write a program for a driverless car in a situation
when the car is in Traffic signal.
Flowchart/Algorithm ready……Now…
 Scenario1: When the signal is green and the self
driving car is about to start, somebody just starts
walking right in front of your car.

 Scenario 2: When the signal is red and self driving

car is stopped at the signal. Now suddenly an
ambulance arrives.
Note Down:
 How many examples are shown? What are
they?
 Different terms we came across.
Aim: We will be able to..

AIM: To know how AI is used

in our daily life
How do you think Artificial Intelligence can help
you as you go about your daily life?
Who is using AI?
How AI is used?
1. Siri
2. Alexa
3. Tesla self driving cars
4. Amazon
5. Netflix/Youtube
Siri/Alexa
 DigitalAssistants using NLP and speech recognition
◦ Understand your voice and accent
◦ Convert voice to text
◦ Process the text to understand the speech
◦ Give you an appropriate response

Extensively used by
Tesla
 Selfdriving cars – identify people on roads, signals,
speed bumps
 Technology used : Computer vision
Amazon/Netflix
 E-commerce
 Predictour interest and choices based on online
behaviour
◦ Collect data from past purchase/choice
◦ Data from similar purchases/choice from people of
same gender, age, locality.

By refining AI algorithms using Data Science and

Machine Learning (ML)
Fields required for AI
 Data Science – record, storage and analysis of data
 Computer Science – programming languages
 Mathematics – calculus, matrices, linear algebra
 Linguistics – aspects of human language
 Psychology – decisions, input, output
 Neuroscience – natural intelligence of the human

brain
 Philosophy – action, consciousness
Are you using AI everyday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkJOqoCKfkw
Aim: We will be able to..

To know about the AI

application systems
AI Application Systems
 Vision Systems: Able to understand, interpret and grasp
visual input on the computer
 Speech Recognition: Able to understand language,

background noise, accent which is used by humans and

talk to them.
 Handwriting recognition: Able to read the text written

either by a pen or stylus on paper or screen respectively.

 Intelligent Robots: Able to do multiple tasks within no time

and they are adaptable to the environment around them.

 Lets summarise
 AI is a form of intelligence; a type of technology and a field
of study
 AI theory and development of computer systems (both

machines and software) are able to perform tasks that

normally require human intelligence
 Artificial Intelligence covers a broad range of domains and

applications and is expected to impact every field in the

future.
 Overall, its core idea is building machines and algorithms

which are capable of performing computational tasks that

would otherwise require human like brain functions
Assessment
 What do you think of Artificial Intelligence is?
 What do you want to learn about AI?
 How do you think we should go about it?
 What will you learn?
Explore and Explain (Home Assignment)
Aim: We will be able to..

Gain an awareness of where

Artificial Intelligence
is relevant in our lives
 Activity: Dream Smart Home

Tasks:
1. Need to design a home layout
2. Need to be a smart home
What are Smart Homes?
 Technology to provide
◦ Homeowners security
◦ Comfort
◦ Convenience
◦ Energy Efficiency

 Use Smart Home app on smart phones or other networked

devices
 Home Automation or Domotics
 A Smart Home is a residence that uses internet-connected

devices to enable the remote monitoring and management of

appliances, devices and systems, such as lighting and heating.
Internet of Things (IoT)
It is about extending the power of the internet beyond
computers and smartphones to a whole range of other
things, processes, and environments.

“A system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and

digital machines, objects, animals or people that are
provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer
data over a network without requiring human-to-human or
human-to-computer interaction.”
Smart Home 3d Animation
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYqjs8TKkOE

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CajaUoI3vU
Lets explore
 History of smart home
 Products of smart home
Aim: We will be able to..

To explore the domain of AI

–Data (Machine Learning)
Lets play – Rock, Paper and Scissors

https://www.afiniti.com/corporate/rock-paperscissors
Lets play with the computer

https://apps.givemefive.in/ai-machine/rpsgame.html?sessio
nid=54554deffcad0054
Steps followed:
 Training set: Data used to train the machine for it to
learn.
 Labelling: To tell machines a name for training set.
 Model: The representation of what a machine

learning system has learned from the training set

 Prediction: A model’s output when provided with an

input
Game Descriptions

 Rock,
Paper & Scissors
A game based on Data for AI
Try at home
https://apps.givemefive.in/ai-machine/image.html?sessionid=5
4554deffcad0054
 More on Machine Learning
 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeU5m6vRyCk

Answer the following questions:

1. Where have you seen or experienced artificial intelligence in your
lives?
2. What is Machine Learning?
3. What are the different kinds of data an AI can understand?

AI for Oceans: https://studio.code.org/s/oceans/lessons/1/levels/2

Teachable Machine: https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/
Aim: We will be able to..

To explore the domain of AI

–Computer Vision
Lets play – Emoji Scavenger Hunt

https://emojiscavengerhunt.withgoogle.com/
Technology used

Computer Vision

Emoji Scavenger Hunt is a browser-based game

built with machine learning that uses your phone's
camera and a neural network to try and guess what
it's seeing.
Steps followed:
Try at home
https://blog.tensorflow.org/2018/10/how-we-built-emoji-scav
enger-hunt-using-tensorflow-js.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hXG8v8p0KM
 Aim: We will be able to..

To explore the domain of AI –

Natural Language Processing (NLP)
NLP
 Natural language processing (NLP) is the domain of AI to
understand human language as it is spoken and written --
referred to as natural language.
Mystery Animal
 In this game the computer pretends to be an animal, and you
have to guess what it is using your voice.
 Ask any yes-or-no question you want, like "Do you have

feathers?" or "Do you sleep at night?" Play it on a Google

Home by saying "Hey Google, talk to Mystery Animal,“

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/mystery-animal
Natural Language Processing
 Aim: We will be able to..

To capture students current mood and

thoughts about their future with AI
 Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is an experience where computer generated sensory
information like visual objects, sounds and touch enhance the real-world
environment also called physical environment. Using AR, we can add overlay of
computer generated sensory information to real world or remove real world
objects by masking them. The look and feel of such computer generated
sensory information is such that, it looks object and computer generated object.
to seamlessly interwoven in to real world and difficult to differentiate which is
real world
Al plays very important role to make AR possible. Techniques such as object
detection, distance of object from the person who is viewing the object for size
adjustment, colour detection, light detection to match the computer generated
object to blend with same light intensity of real world, 3D rendering spaces are
only possible though advanced computer vision techniques.
Group Activity 1 –AR Team
It is likely you would have seen some AR
(Augmented reality) already in your day to day
life. List down AR experiences you would have
had and write a short note/
presentation/drawings, in future what areas of
your day to day life can be using AR
 Autonomous vehicle
A vehicle which can sense its environment like humans do and navigate through the environment with little or no
human input. For a vehicle to drive by itself, it needs to have sensory functions like humans and cognitive
capabilities like object recognition, sound inference, memory, logic,and the abilities to take decisions and to learn
from mistakes. Autonomous vehicles are fitted with numerous sensors to capture data of its surroundings. Some of
them are Radar, GPS, Lidar, camera, odometer, passenger condition evaluation, vehicle condition evaluation and
more.
These devices generate massive amounts of data of the real-world and data is usually sent to sensor fusion engine
control unit (ECU). ECU integrates data from various sensors and further sends to Intelligent Al enabled agents
residing inside the vehicle or on the cloud to make sense of data and make decisions. The decision from intelligent
agents is sent back to the vehicle control units like steering, brakes, accelerator, head lamp, indicators, air bags,
etc.
These vehicle control units are programmed to behave in certain way based on direction from intelligent agents,
e.g., if vehicle camera detects the Red traffic signal and a zebra crossing and the Radar detects, for example, a
zebra crossing, for example, 50 metres away, the intelligent agents calculates the time required to reach zebra
crossing at the current vehicle speed and sends a signal to the vehicle control units to apply brakes
Currently available autonomous vehicles still have steering wheels, brakes and accelerators as a human is
expected to sit behind them and take control of vehicle in emergency situations. But Al techniques like Deep
learning, neural networks is playing a Important role in enabling Level-5 autonomous vehicles which can handle
emergency situations on its own, thus enabling true autonomous vehicles.
Group Activity 2 – AV team
Write a short note in future what types of
autonomous vehicles will be seen on our
streets, what changes needs to be done for
existing city infrastructure to accommodate
autonomous vehicles
AI Personal Assistants
You would have seen business CEOs or top government ministers having personal assistants.
Personal assistants (PAs) help their bosses in various day to day functions like scheduling meetings,
arranging business trip itineraries, replying to emails, proving research reports and more.
Imagine instead of only selected people who can afford having PAs, now every person can have
their own PA's !. This is now possible and we are already seeing initial versions of Al enabled digital
personal assistants in market like Apple Siri, Google Assistant and more. These Al enabled systems
have ability to book a cab, play our favourite music or movie, answer questions, provide news and
weather updates, call or text on our behalf to your near and dear ones etc.
Al techniques such as Knowledge graph, Natural Language processing, Natural language generation
techniques, recommendation engines are pushing what personal assistants can do. These digital
assistants typically live in our phones or home devices and always learning about your preferences
and dislikes. These devices are being connected with sensors like home sensors, vehicle sensors,
body sensors. In future these instead of providing just information about we ask, might start
recommending, calling some of our friends in our voice and enabling real life conversations.
Group Activity 3 – PA Team
Write a short note about what tasks you would
like your own AI enabled personal assistant to
do and which tasks it shouldn’t do. What
information about you should PA learn and what
information should be kept confidential.
Augmented Reality
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYoRSXbQLs
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQtwWzfzKXI
Letter to future…
Aim: We will be able to..

Describe how AI has been

affecting jobs in various
industries
Activity
 Research on the given theme and find out various
organisations incorporating AI in your theme sector. Also,
look at the skill-sets required for such jobs
Goal of the activity

What are the names of the Write briefly what they do.
organisations in our
country working around
this theme?
Purpose: To inspire by local examples of AI application in
their
community, to create a summary of their findings in a form
of a future Job Advertisement and share it with other teams.
Applications of AI in Real Life
 Healthcare for assisting doctors
◦ Google’s DeepMind –Analyse retinal scans and spot symptoms of sight
threatening eye diseases.
 AI in Education for Automated Grading System
◦ The Telangana State Board of Intermediate Educationin India – accuracy in
their exams and fair results
◦ Pearson –AI based assessment systems in ELT
 AI in agriculture
◦ Blue River Technology – Uses See & Spray robot to monitor and precisely
spray pesticide on cotton plants.
◦ Plantix mobile app – Uses image recognition software to help farmers to
detect plant diseases
 AI in Banking and finance
◦ Nomura- analyse the insights of experienced stock traders
◦ EVA by HDFC bank – chatbot to assist customers
 AI in gaming Industry
◦ AlphaGo – First AI program that plays board game Go.
 AI in Space exploration
◦ AEGIS – Mars based AI robot responsible to handle autonomous
targeting of cameras to perform investigations.
Job Profiles in AI
 AI system Developer
 Data Scientists
 Machine Learning Specialist
 Big Data Engineers
 AI research Scientist
 AI Business development manager
 AI business analyst
 AI trainers
Professional Skills
 Proficiency in programming Languages –Python, R, C++, Java
 Proficiency in Machine Learning Algorithms
 Artificial Neural Networks
 Problem solving skills
 Knowledge of AI industries
Indian AI startups
 Haptik.ai – world’s largest startup that builds chatbots
 Manthan – Developed Maya – NLP based business assistant for

retail business
 Value coders – AI and ML based software development.
 Rubique – Used in Banking sector which helps users to find the

best match for his or her credit requirements

 Sigtuple – Medical diagnostic start up. Also developed ML

based automated microscope.

 Niramai Health Analytix – Detecting breast cancer in its early
stage.
 Niki.ai – chatbot which understands the language of indian

users and works for them.

 Expertrons – World’s first AI video bot-assisted platform that

helps college students to crack interviews by attending 24X7

interview based queries.
Global AI startups
 Cloudminds – commercial humanoid services
 Vacasa - Portal that provides an option to rent vacation

homes to its customers anywhere in the world.

 Thought spot – Enable business analysis using expert

knowledge of experienced data scientists.

QUIZ
 ML based medical diagnostic start up _____________
 Maya is an AI based analytics application developed for

___________________________
 ___________ is a start up for software development.
 The See & Spray robot is used in ______________ field.
 The __________________ mobile app is used in agriculture.
 Aim: We will be able to..

To identify leverage points which

are appropriate for achieving
SDGs using AI solutions.
Take a look at the pictures and try to give the
theme of each picture: you have 5 minutes.
Sustainable Development
 Economic development of the nation without the
depletion of its natural resources.
 Objective : To satisfy the needs of today without

compromising the needs of tomorrow.

 In 2015, the United Nations has defined 17 Sustainable
Development goals (SDGs) .
 The SDGs are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.

 https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-dev
elopment-goals/
Ask Yourself
How AI can help in achieving SDG goals?
AI has the potential to
 Process large amount of data with faster processing speed
 Understand patterns and trends in the larger datasets
 Predict future trends
 Learns from the data patterns which can be used in similar

situations.
 Process complex datatypes such as images, audio, video and

object detection
 Understand and respond in natural human language
Goal #1: No Poverty
 Through improving farming lands and agriculture,
 Increasing education and helping inhabitants learning new

skills to support communities.

 AI can also help with aid distribution in poorer and war-torn

areas, or where natural disasters have caused devastation.

Goal #2: Zero Hunger 

 From enhanced communication interfaces that give us a better
understanding of the people we help to automated transport and
logistics systems
 Organisations are primed to take advantage of the technology to

help us reach Zero Hunger faster.

Goal #3: Good Health & Well being

As per the sources, AI is promising to change the

way workplaces operate, but will it be a force for
good or disrupt workplace culture in negative ways?
With the expectation that AI will create a $190.6
billion market by 2025, it could be a tool used to
provide healthier, more productive, and accessible
work environments for all employees.
Read the articles
1. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
2. https://ai4good.org/ai-for-sdgs/
3. 
https://peltarion.com/blog/applied-ai/17-ways-to-reach-un-
sdgs-with-ai
4. https://ai-for-sdgs.academy/#browseByGoals
AI Ethics
Let us now assume that the car has hit the boy who came in
front of it. Considering this as an accident, who should be held
responsible for it? Why?
1. The person who bought this car
2. The Manufacturing Company
3. The developer who developed the car’s algorithm
4. The boy who came in front of the car and got severely
injured
AI ethics
Ai is a powerful tool. It can be used in ways that can affect the
society positively or negatively.
 Data Privacy
 Where do we collect data from?
 Why do we need to collect data?
1. When you are talking to your friend on a mobile network or on an app like
WhatsApp. You tell your friend that you wish to buy new shoes and are
looking for suggestions from him/her. You discuss about shoes and that is
it. After some time, the online shopping websites start giving you
notifications to buy shoes! They start recommending some of their
products and urge you to you buy some.
2. If you search on Google for a trip to Kerala or any other destination, just
after the search, all the apps on your phone which support advertisements,
will start sending messages about packages that you can buy for the trip.
3. Even when you are not using your phone and talking to a person face-to-
face about a book you’ve read recently while the phone is kept in a locked
mode nearby, the phone will end up giving notifications about similar
books or messages about the same book once you operate it.
AI Bias

1. Majorly, all the virtual assistants have a female voice. It is

only now that some companies have understood this bias and
have started giving options for male voices but since the virtual
assistants came into practice, female voices are always
preferred for them over any other voice. Can you think of some
reasons for this?
2. If you search on Google for salons, the first few searches are
mostly for female salons. This is based on the assumption that
if a person is searching fora salon, in all probability it would be
a female. Do you think this is a bias? If yes, then is it a Negative
bias or Positive one?
AI Bias
 AI Bias is a phenomenon that occurs when an algorithm
produces results that are systematically prejudiced towards
certain gender, language, race, wealth etc. and therefore
produces skewed or learned output.
 Sources of AI bias:
◦ Data
◦ Algorithms
◦ People
AI Access
AI creates unemployment
On one hand where AI is advancing and improving the lives of
people by working for them and doing some of their tasks, the
other hand points towards the lives of people who are dependent
on laborious jobs and are not skilled to do anything else.
 Should AI replace laborious jobs?
 Is there an alternative for major unemployment?
 Should AI not replace laborious jobs?
 Will the lives of people improve if they keep on being unskilled?
AI Access
 AI access can be acquired by two means:
◦ Data Availability- AI needs access to huge datasets so that it can
analyse it and draw conclusions and learn from it.
◦ Abilities – AI needs access to capable hardware to turn its learning into
useful action. Self-driven cars are examples of AI with right access.
 AI for kids
A young boy in class 3 has got some Maths homework to finish. He is sitting
at a table which has the Google chat bot - Alexa on it, and he is struggling
with his homework. Soon, he starts asking Alexa to answer all his questions.
Alexa replies with answers and the boy simply writes them down in his
notebook. While this scenario seems funny, it still has some concerns related
to it. On one hand where it is good that the boy knows how to use
technology effectively, on the other hand he uses it to complete his
homework without really learning anything since he is not applying his brain
to solve the Math problems. So, while he is smart, he might not be getting
educated properly. Is it ethical to let the boy use technology to help in this?
Weaponization of AI
 AI weaponization means using AI to deliberately cause harm
on human beings by integrating it into the systems and tools
of national militaries. 
 Is it good or bad?
 To what extent?

What will happen if National militaries are completely replaced

by AI machineries?
Conclusion
Conclusion Despite AI’s promises to bring forth new
opportunities, there are certain associated risks that need to be
mitigated appropriately and effectively. To give a better
perspective, the ecosystem and the socio-technical environment
in which the AI systems are embedded needs to be more
trustworthy