The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence is hosting a Family Day on Saturday 24 May. Join us at King’s College London for a free, family-friendly exploration of AI, with activities suitable for children aged 7 and over.

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Activities will include:

Robo Footy Manager

Delivered by members of the KCLTech and Research in Electronics student societies. Sponsored by G-Research.

Go head-to-head in a scaled-down football pitch (with a surprising twist!) as you gesture-control up to 4 robots against a formidable AI team trained by students from King’s.

Autonomous Service Robot for the Home

Delivered by Dr Gerard Canal and Dr Matteo Leonetti.

A robot that carries out all the household chores is still a dream…but we are working on it! Our robot is learning how to prepare breakfast, store groceries, and carry your luggage. Come along and interact with our robot and see it demonstrate its skills.

Fictions and Futures of Digital Twins Workshop

Delivered by Dr Christine Aicardi and Stephen Oram.

This interactive workshop will introduce the concepts behind digital twins, with real life and imagined examples. Following a structured creative process attendees will be encouraged to imagine a desirable digital twin future and to write their own short story set in that future.

This activity is suitable for age 11+.

Super Mario Bros: The Turing Quest

Delivered by Nathan Gavenski and Michelle Nwachukwu. Sponsored by G-Research.

Can you tell if you are watching a your friend, your parent or your sibling play Super Mario Bros, or if you are watching AI play?

Take part in this experiment where one visitor (player) is asked to play a level of Super Mario Bros, and another visitor (viewer) is shown some gameplay. The viewer must guess whether the gameplay is from the player or AI and let us know why you have made your decision.

Make Your Own Robot Costume

Delivered by Katie Kennedy.

Join workshop artist and designer Katie Kennedy to design and make a robot inspired wearable item made from recycled materials. Will you make a robot inspired head? A suit? Or robotic arms, legs, or boots?

This activity is suitable for ages 4+.

Detecting Brain Abnormalities with AI

Delivered by Dr Thomas Booth, Dr Giusi Manfredi, Dr Matthew Townend and Yiran Wei.

Did you know that artificial intelligence can be used to detect abnormalities in the brain? Through interactive games find out how researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences are using AI to detect brain abnormalities and how the adoption of these techniques can improve triage in hospitals.

My Clone and Me: A Matter of Perspective

Delivered by Dr Deborah Olukan.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your favourite memories could come to life? Join us for a fun, interactive session where we bring Memory Clones to life- digital version of real memories! You’ll get to see memories turned into cool digital creations, then share your thoughts on what it would be like if your own memories could live forever.

This activity is supported by Responsible AI UK.

Hello, SERMAS! Meet a Human-like Virtual AI Assistant

Delivered by Dr Oya Celiktutan, Dr Cristina Palmero Cantarino and Dr Megha Quamara.

Say hello to the SERMAS Assistant! In this interactive demo, families can engage with a human-like, AI-powered virtual agent that understands and responds to your questions. Visit the SERMAS kiosk and experience how our intelligence assistant can provide real-time answers about the festival, just like a friendly receptionist or helpful guide!

Acknowledgements: SERMAS project, Spindox Labs, Innovate UK.

Intelino Engineuity Challenge

Delivered by Allen Tsui.

Test your skills and understanding of forces and motion by using your skills at controlling a driverless model train across a very special layout of Intelino SmartTrain track network.

Program a Postcard!

Delivered by Jo Brodie, Professor Paul Curzon and Dan Gill.

Use our card-shuffling unplugged AI tool to write a fun postcard to a friend or family members (or yourself!) using one of our prompts. We might even post it for you!

Acknowledgments: ESPRC.

Hands on AI Activities

Delivered by Kathryn Boast and Peter Gallivan.

How to Train Your AI

Explore hands-on how an AI model learns to distinguish between images by adding your drawings to our Dog or Cat model. You’ll see how an image recognition model can be built quite easily, and common things that can go wrong along the way.

Image This

In the last few years AI image generators have improved rapidly, creating amazing images sometimes indistinguishable from real photographs. But they are only as smart as the data they are trained on- can you match the image to the text prompt which generated them?

One World Turing Test

The Turing Test is a method designed to test how intelligent AI systems are, testing if a human can work out if they are talking to an AI and not a real human. Recently researchers have suggested a simplification of this test, allowing just one word to prove you are a human and not a machine. Add your word to the wall, see what others chose, and more importantly what words AI models choose to use to try and pass as human.

Making Games with Your Phone

Delivered by Dr Mike Cook.

Come and learn how to make a game with just your phone and the things you have around you. Using the mobile phone app Downpour we will make a simple story game in just an hour by taking photos and connecting them together.

This activity is recommended for ages 10+. Younger game designers will need an adult to be co-designer.

King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence

This event is part of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence. Running from Tuesday 20 May to Saturday 24 May, the free, five-day festival brings together a diverse line-up of experts to consider critical questions about artificial intelligence in the context of healthcare, education, sustainability, policy, and creativity.

This event is being sponsored in part by G-Research.

Festival events will take place across several King’s venues, so please check carefully where the event is taking place. Festival event times may be subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to attendees via Eventbrite emails.

Please note, King's events are free, which means we routinely overbook to allow for no-shows and avoid empty seats. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment. We will not be able to admit those without tickets or latecomers.