2023-2024 Winner

Little Language Models | CoCo

Empowering children with "Probabilistic Thinking" in the era of AI

United States of America
Track:
21st Century World
Award Level:
Growth Award

Project Description

“Little Language Models” is a novel co-creative mathematical microworld within the CoCo platform (coco.build). It is designed for groups of children (ages 8-16) to explore together the powerful ideas of probabilistic thinking, modeling, and learning that lie at the core of Generative AI systems. The tool provides custom probabilistic blocks and representations that let children easily build their own little models using their own data (including images, sounds, or text). They can use those to create a wide variety of projects with peers in real-time such as—generative art, music, and stories; adaptive games; interactive visualizations; and advanced projects using Markov blocks. The tool is designed to make key ideas underlying AI systems accessible and engaging for kids.

Meet Our Team

Manuj Dhariwal

Doctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Shruti Dhariwal

Doctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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