AI Mistakes and Limitations
Your child knows AI can get things wrong, like calling a photo of a muffin a dog. It only knows what it was shown — it is not magic.
In curriculum terms
Machines make mistakes; they only know what they've been shown; bad training data leads to bad results; AI is not magic — just maths on data; showing edge cases and failures
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If an AI incorrectly identified a picture of a muffin as a chihuahua, could your child explain why that kind of mistake happens?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).