Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just the future, it is already the present and it’s here to just get bigger and better. Most parents, even today, have a notion about AI being only for adults, or the belief that children are way too young to understand AI, but reality is far from that. Truth is, if AI is made engaging enough, any and every kid out there enjoys it because they aren’t just learning. To them, it’s more about having fun and that’s what modern education revolves around – game-based learning to ensure that children learn and have fun, together.
Here are our favourite Artificial Intelligence games that’ll get your child’s creative juices flowing:
Code Monkey
This website incorporates fun-based educational games via which kids learn coding in an engaging environment that hardly feels like ‘studying’. CodeMonkey also offers automatic grading and easy curriculum management solutions to make learning fun for kids, and assessment, easy for parents.
Data Games
Data Games is loaded with a collection of games that are aimed at keeping students engaged with math and statistics. Data Games teaches children the foundation of understanding and analysing data and using it to develop strong coding skills. It begins with basic games like Stone-Paper-Scissor and then gradually increases its levels to incorporate brain teasers that foster logical thinking and skill building, while helping children learn about data science and more.
Code Combat
This strategy-based game involves role play while teaching children programming and coding. It is one of the most interactive and engaging games for a child to explore, with an equally fun interface. At every step the game in enhanced, making it a favourite not only among children, but adults too. Code Combat isn’t just great for learning JavaScript and Python, but also for building core Computer Science skills.
Petalica Paint
Every child loves to color, but what if they simply drew and AI colored their masterpieces for them? Petalica Paint lets you do just that. Your child can create something fun using one of their online tools, alternatively you could scan and upload your child’s sketch to their app and AI will fill in the artwork with colors in various modes, giving an array of options for the same image. It can even color in abstract doodles, hence never failing to surprise you.
Thing Translator
Thing Translator allows you to take a photo of anything around you and adds in a description about the object using a simple-to-understand language. While this app might seem basic, it proves to be a lot of fun for small children who are working on their pronunciations, or older ones who are trying to learn a foreign language.
Quick, Draw!
Quick, Draw! is the simplest game, yet super fun for both, children and adults. All you have to do is draw something and let AI guess it.
Shadow Art
When we were younger, we’d make hand shadows against walls and ask our friends to guess. Today, children make shadow puppets and AI looks at their art through the lens of a camera, judging how good it is. The game has 12 animals, one representing each zodiac sign and proves to make learning fun for young champs.
These are just some of our top favorites, but there’s definitely no dearth of games out there that encourage children to get creative. Artificial Intelligence is seeping into our everyday life and getting children adapted to this brilliant future technology is just what we should all be doing. So, what are you waiting for?
