TALAMANA · THE AI LITERACY MAP FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN · Foundations · AGE 11—15 · FACTUAL · DURABLE

AI is already in your day

Your phone, spell-check and feed are already making small choices for you.

The idea

Your phone may unlock by recognising your face. Spell-check fixes your words. Your feed picks which pictures you see next. Much of that is AI, working quietly; some of it is older software following a list. You do not have to go looking for AI. It is probably already in your day, making small choices for you.

Why it matters

You cannot think clearly about something you have not noticed. So the first step is to notice.

See it in the studio

Even the photos you save for inspiration reached you because a machine sorted them to the top. A machine was building your moodboard before you started it.

Watch for this

Thinking AI means robots or chatbots only. Most AI never talks. It sorts, ranks, and filters.

Try it

Keep a list for one day. Every time a machine chose, fixed, or sorted something for you, write it down. Count the list at night.

Prove it

Point to three places in your normal day where a machine picked or changed what you saw.

How it works

These quiet systems learn from millions of examples of what people tap, keep, and skip. Later on this map you will meet the same machinery in tools where you give the instructions.

What this idea builds on

What this idea opens up

Sources

Open this idea on the map · The complete map · Logika · RBDS AI Lab, India · revised every edition.

Age grows from 11 at the centre to 22 at the edge, and six sectors show the learning strands. Tab into the map and the arrow keys step from idea to idea, following the links where there is one. Enter opens the idea under the cursor, and E reads out its links and the reason recorded on each. Press slash for Search, question mark for the full key list, and Escape to leave. Open Ideas for the complete readable list, including what each idea builds on and what it opens up.

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