Working with Gen AI · Unit 1 · Day 3

BookBot + the Toy language model

Name __________________________ Partner __________________________

Paper, pencil and a laptop per pair. Record here or in your own document. Observing a partner or teacher demonstration is full participation.

1 · BookBot: count, then generate

the robot paints a moon .
the robot paints a star .
the robot folds a map .
the fox paints a moon .
the fox folds a map .
the robot paints a moon .

Count repeats. The period is a token. Never count across lines.

After a	Tally	Count
moon
map
star

Current word	Next words, with repeats
the	robot, robot, robot, fox, fox, robot
robot	paints, paints, folds, paints
fox	paints, folds
paints	a, a, a, a
folds	a, a
a	use your tally above
moon · star · map	. (always)

Start at the. Always choose the most common next word. Stop at the period.

the → __________ → __________ → __________ → __________ → .

Why does the same run repeat? __________________________________________

2 · Prepare the Toy model

Open machinelearningforkids.co.uk using the route your teacher gives you (Try it now or the class login). Use a generating text project and choose Toy. Add the shared Robot Garden corpus from the activity page or bookbot-corpus.txt. Keep the repeated lines.

Smallest context · top-p at the high end · starting text: the robot

This model continues the starting text. If it says the prompt needs more words, return to the smallest context and restore the start. Still stuck? Watch the teacher demonstration and record from that. Use the supplied fictional corpus; no private details.

3 · Predict, then change only temperature

I predict that higher temperature will ____________________________________

because ______________________________________________________________

A: toward low, 3 runs. B: toward high, 3 runs. Keep corpus, start, context and top-p fixed. Restore the robot before every run.

No numbers on the slider? Slide it about ¼ of the way for A and about ¾ for B. Don’t move it between runs.

Screenshot both settings. Values or screenshot names: A __________ B __________

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Evidence and a creative decision

4 · Save every run

Screenshot every run. For A1 and B1, also copy the first 10 generated words exactly (not the starting text). For other runs, write the screenshot name. Identical outputs count. A loop that repeats the same phrase is evidence, not a broken model.

Run	A1 and B1: first 10 words · other runs: screenshot name
A1
A2
A3
B1
B2
B3

One repetition I noticed: __________________________________________________

One surprising or usable combination: ______________________________________

5 · A title for a robot’s nighttime garden

Choose a generated phrase as a title for this imaginary artwork. Circle: KEEP / EDIT / REPLACE. You may reject the wording and write your own title.

Original phrase (run ____): ________________________________________________

My final title: __________________________________________________________

My choice serves the artwork because ______________________________________

6 · One claim, with a limit

I changed ____________________ and kept __________________________ fixed.

I observed _____________________________________________________________

My evidence is _________________________________________________________

This does not establish __________________________________________________

7 · Classroom: capture before leaving

Turn in: a photo of both pages of this sheet, your A and B settings screenshots, and your run screenshots. In Classroom, type your final title and your claim. Filename Lastname-U1D3.

If you used the paper fallback: label A “most common” and B “word draws”; record three choices for each. State that you did not test temperature on the website. For an observer, name the route: partner or teacher demonstration.

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Robot Garden · shared corpus

Fictional text authored for this activity with AI assistance. Everyone starts with the same text. The repeated line is intentional. Press Copy corpus and paste it into your Toy model. If Copy does nothing, open the text file, select all and copy.

Ready-to-paste text

the robot paints a silver moon above the quiet garden .
the robot paints a silver moon above the quiet garden .
the robot paints a blue moon beside the sleeping river .
the robot paints a small star above the quiet garden .
the robot paints a bright star beside the sleeping river .
the robot paints a paper sun inside the empty museum .
the robot folds a paper moon beside the open window .
the robot folds a paper map inside the empty museum .
the robot folds a silver bird above the quiet garden .
the robot carries a blue lantern beside the sleeping river .
the robot carries a small lantern inside the empty museum .
the robot dreams of a paper moon above the quiet garden .
the fox paints a silver moon beside the open window .
the fox paints a blue river inside the empty museum .
the fox folds a paper star above the quiet garden .
the fox folds a small map beside the sleeping river .
the fox carries a silver lantern beside the open window .
the fox dreams of a quiet garden under the paper sun .
the garden holds a small river under the silver moon .
the garden holds a bright lantern beside the open window .
the river carries a paper bird under the silver moon .
the river carries a small star beside the quiet garden .
the museum holds a blue lantern under the paper sun .
the museum holds a silver bird beside the open window .

After the required experiment · optional

Keep temperature and top-p fixed and change context size only. Use a long enough starting phrase from the corpus, such as the robot paints a silver moon. Keep that phrase identical in your comparison. Save these results separately. Look for phrases copied directly from the source as well as new combinations.