Chatbots as a component of the content of teaching the basics of artificial intelligence at school

Abstract

The article discusses the relevance of teaching schoolchildren the basics of artifcial intelligence. The importance of chatbots is emphasized as a component of the content of the theme "Fundamentals of artifcial intelligence" for the development of interdisciplinary links of the school course of informatics with other areas of knowledge. The theoretical aspects of teaching schoolchildren the technology of creating chatbots are considered: the characteristics of the basic concepts, historical information, the most common classifcation, the mechanism for processing user requests by the chatbot. Guidelines for teaching the technology of creating a chatbot are proposed. The designers for creating chatbots available for development by schoolchildren are listed. A plan of practical work "Creating a chatbot in the Aimylogic online constructor" is given. In order to illustrate the results of approbation of the educational material under consideration, examples of chatbots are given: a chatbot that talks about various types of algebraic equations; a chatbot — assistant for fractions; a chatbot — consultant on the theme "Algorithm and its properties. Ways of algorithm representation". The presented examples include the structure of the chatbot dialog created in the Aimylogic constructor and in the Pencil Code service.