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
- A starting idea.
What this idea opens up
Sources
- mt_AzTrT5ySCx, mt_EedcpioR0v (Marble Skill Taxonomy, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- understanding-ai
- Elements of AI
Open this idea on the map · The complete map · Logika · RBDS AI Lab, India · revised every edition.