Artificial intelligence exhibition a smart choice for children
The China Welfare Institute launched a Soong Ching Ling Cultural Space on Friday offering the public free education, art and humanity exhibition services.
The space on Wuyuan Road unveiled its first exhibition, organized by the China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace and Yitu Technology Co, for visitors to learn scientific principles of artificial intelligence, its development trends and how it is applied in our life.
There are installations for visitors to experience facial recognition technology. At the entrance is a large screen that can capture facial expressions and produce appropriate memes. Another installation can take a photo of a pair of visitors and analyze the similarity of their appearances.
There is a robot Qiqi which can speak with visitors and take photos. The photos can be printed as postcards.
The exhibition will run till the end of October.
During the exhibition, there will be mini courses on AI, such as using AI in positioning vehicles and making automatic garbage-sorting bins.
Reservations can be made via the space’s WeChat account “sqlculturalspace.”
The courses are provided by the China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace, which was set up in 1953 by China’s Honorary President Soong Ching Ling as the first comprehensive educational organization outside of schools in the People’s Republic of China. It now offers nearly 100 programs covering art, science, technology and culture. It organizes more than 300 activities every year attended by over 400,000 people.
It was also one of the earliest Chinese organizations to popularize computer education among children. In 1984, then Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace. After watching children demonstrate computer operations, he said computer popularization should start from childhood.
A screen produces memes based on visitors' facial expressions.
An installation takes a photo of two students and reports that they are 39.46 percent similar.
Students play with robot vehicles.
A student makes a gesture shown on the screen and the system reports it's 88 percent similar.
Robot Qiqi takes a photo for visitors.
