DAY 2 · HOW AI LEARNS

Pet Detector

Teach a machine to tell cats from rabbits.

2 rounds · About 5 to 7 minutes

How to play

In Day 2, you learned that AI finds patterns in labeled examples. Here, your pictures teach it what counts as a cat or rabbit.

1

Pick 6 pictures. Label each one Cat or Rabbit.

2

Press Train. The machine looks for a pattern.

3

Test it on 8 new pictures. Then improve your examples.

Round 1: Build the training data

Training data 0 of 6

Choose 6 pictures. Tap one, then label it.

Pick 6 pictures first.
TRAINING

Training…

The machine is looking at the ears, the background, and the fur color. It wants a feature that tells your cats and rabbits apart.

THE TEST

Pictures it has never seen

These 8 pictures were not used for training.

Accuracy0 of 8

What it actually learned

See the clues it checked
FEATURE IT CHECKEDTELLS YOUR EXAMPLES APART?

This simulation compares preset clues. When clues tie, it tries the background first.

Your machine's report card

Review the key words

A model is only as good as the examples it was shown.

Cat or rabbit?