Welcome to bESTology 2025 fACTOIDS

This mission will focus your thinking through interaction of AI and deepen your knowledge of training AI models and judging the validity of the results. Examining the accuracy of results is vital in determining the value of AI responses. Find your thinking cap and gather your thoughts to enter this next part of your AI mission. Let’s begin…

Lesson #8- “Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding,”  Burt Ratan

Mission eight will have you apply your critical thinking and reflection strategies to understand how testing and failure leads to growth. AI is still a work in progress as the data sets being used are constantly evolving, learning about prompts and using Critical Thinking to assess the accuracy and responses using AI Chatbots and Generative AI tools.

RESEARCH RESOURCES

Resource Title	Website URL
7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail	IEEE Spectrum
AI Failures: From Microsoft’s Outage to the Google Gemini	enki
The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands	The New Yorker
Turning Failure into the Foundation for AI Success	Northwestern University
The Successes and Failures of AI Projects	Perfony
Generative AI Prompt Generator	Google Cloud
Video: Writing AI Prompts for Generative AI	Harvard University
Video: How To Design Better AI Prompts	John Spencer
Video: Simple Guide to Writing AI Prompts	Thinking In Public

Tools and Tips

Use your school provided AI Bot

Google Gemini or Bard 

Use your phone or mobile device and the AI Bot

Use Prompt Templates

Thinking In Public

Generative AI Prompt Generator

Generative AI Prompt Writing

ACTIVITY

In Lesson 7 you used AI Prompts to generate results in AI applications . Now that you have seen the results, how accurate do you think the results were? Was everything shown accurate? When you made an AI model using Machine Language bots, did your training yield accurate results? Did you think about the accuracy of the results? Now that you have read about AI failures in this unit, did you encounter a similar failure?   Using the links under Tools and Tips and the video resources below, create your own AI Prompts. Evaluate how well the prompt would perform overtime. What changes could be made to improve accuracy or legitimacy of the information?

Share your insights in your Engineering Notebook.

• What did you notice about how prompt engineering works?
• How accurate was the generated response?
• Did you find  bias in the response?
• What AI tool did you use?
• How did you debug for accuracy?
• How functional was your overall response for your team, task, overall results?

INQUIRY PROJECT

Burt Rutan  is an American aircraft and spacecraft designer who was perhaps best known for SpaceShipOne, which in 2004 became the first private crewed spacecraft.Thinking about his quote at the beginning of this lesson, how will you share what you have learned about failure,  AI Prompt Engineering, Machine Language and neural networks showing you asking the right questions in your Engineering Notebook? How will this lesson support your team in sharing and showing failure and success, risk and rewards with your robot design, construction, and software design?

BEST IN YOUR COMMUNITY

Learn how AI failures have failed the public . After reading the article, think about the businesses in your community. Connect with one or two and find out if they are using AI and if they have experienced AI failures and ways they have overcome them. Share your investigation in your Engineering Notebook.

Teacher / Mentor Info:

Bloom’s Taxonomy-Lesson  Addresses the following Taxonomy Levels: 
Resources-  Remembering and Understanding Research-Applying, Analyzing Evaluating Activity-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating BEST in Your Community- Analyzing, Evaluating Based On A True Story-Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating

Workforce Skills-Lesson  has students utilize the following Workforce Skills: 
Communication-effectively communicate ideas and information to others Adaptability-understand how to change and adapt thinking and behavior