Digital Starter: Neural networks

• playful introduction to the functioning of a neural network
• results can be easily read on a slider
• high quality game material that makes abstract calculations easy to experience

With an artificial neural network, a program can learn to distinguish cat images from other animal images, for example. Children vividly learn how to do this with a wooden laptop and two specified neural networks. They are first prepared for this task with training cards, by giving a different weight to the numerical information available on them in the neural network. After training, players test their artificial neural network. Can the wooden laptop use only the numbers printed on the test cards to tell whether the animal you are looking for is hiding underneath?