Chinese Publisher Introduces AI Textbooks For Preschoolers

Photos of an artificial intelligence textbook for Chinese preschoolers have gone viral. Artificial Intelligence Experiment Materials is a 33-volume textbook series aimed at Chinese students from kindergarten to high school that was published this July by Henan People's Publishing House. AI researchers from Google, the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and key Chinese universities collaborated on the textbooks, which pertain to an AI education initiative launched this July by the China Education Technology Association Smart Learning Committee and UNESCO. The aim is to democratize AI education in 100 Chinese schools, introduce pre-teens to the basics, strengthen teenagers' capability for using intelligent and applied technologies, and help train hundreds of new AI teachers. Also included in the initiative is a cloud-based AI e-learning platform that students can access via PC or WeChat.