Inside The Exhibit

“AI: Your Mind & The Machine” is a traveling exhibit that shows visitors how artificial intelligence is relevant to their lives right now. Dozens of interactives, illusions, and videos make this the perfect STEAM exhibit to introduce children and adults to the technology. With a strong focus on tactile interactives including sliders, blocks, cylinders, puzzles, and clipboards, visitors learn how AI programs work. Touchscreens allow them to experience how AI learns and behaves.

From illusions that fool computers on to machines that can identify their surroundings and translate languages, the exhibit features dozens of ways that our brains and computers interact with the world. It also explains how our brains and AI will work together in the future.

People are reading about it in the news and hearing about its use in an ever-growing number of consumer products, but they are not discovering what artificial intelligence really is, how it works, what it can do, and what it might do.

Children aren’t taught about AI in schools, and adults in the workplace aren’t typically instructed in ways that they can use AI. Their primary exposure to what makes artificial intelligence work is through science fiction in all its media forms (movies, TV, books, etc.). These kids and their families also happen to be some of the most frequent attendees of museums.

The AI Exhibit presents a unique opportunity to educate people of all ages about artificial intelligence. In doing so, it will inspire them to find out more about AI, and perhaps investigate how AI will be part of their future—as end users and even as developers. No other hands-on experience is attempting to bring the reality of AI directly to the people who will be using it, and possibly creating it, in the years to come.