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The AI Case Files: Cracking the Black Box: A Machine Learning Mystery
Hardcover
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Can a mystery be solved when the algorithm has already decided the answer?
In Bengaluru, fourteen-year-old Jennie and her AI companion Ki face their strangest case yet. At 2:17 a.m., an anonymous message hits her phone: a million rows of citywide exam results, already sorted, ranked, and scored by something no one can see inside.
It calls itself ORACLE. And it has decided which children will succeed and which will fail, before they sit the test.
This is no normal investigation. It's a machine learning mystery, and the only way to prove ORACLE learned wrong is to open the black box.
Cracking the Black Box is book two of The AI Case Files, a first-of-its-kind series blending middle-grade mystery with real machine learning. A new thinking tool per chapter.
Why parents and educators pick it up:
Demystifies the future. Training data, labels, bias, overfitting, prediction, in Ki's Field Reports.
Interactive, not passive. Each chapter ends with a hands-on Future Blueprint.
NEP 2020 aligned for computational thinking and data literacy.
Strong, curious female lead in a real Indian city, with characters who think like her readers.
I could not find the book my child needed for this world, so I wrote it. - Satya Krishna Vishnumolakala, AI researcher and mother
For fans of Ada Twist, Scientist ..
Open the black box. Question the data. Solve the mystery.
Join the AI Case Files team.
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