No, artificial intelligence can't replace the human brain, and no, we'll never really be able to make AI bias-free.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 04/17/19
Education will experience the third-largest growth of any sector, coming in slightly behind government (44.3 percent) and "personal and consumer services" (43.3 percent).
The innovation "is heading on the path to essentially allowing anyone to be a manufacturer."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/18/19
Artificial intelligence shows promise for education, but only when it comes to supporting teachers with repetitive and predictable tasks.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/28/19
Will artificial intelligence make most people better off over the next decade, or will it redefine what free will means or what a human being is? A new report by the Pew Research Center has weighed in on the topic by conferring with some 979 experts, who have, in summary, predicted that networked AI "will amplify human effectiveness but also threaten human autonomy, agency and capabilities."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/20/18
Google has set aside a $25 million pool to fund research work by schools and other organizations using machine learning for "social good."
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/14/18
IT analyst firm Gartner has named its top 10 trends for 2019, and the "immersive user experience" is on the list, alongside blockchain, quantum computing and seven other drivers influencing how we interact with the world. The annual trend list covers breakout tech with broad impact and tech that could reach a tipping point in the near future.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/22/18
Artificial intelligence could have a profound impact on learning, but it also raises key questions.
- By Dennis Pierce, Alice Hathaway
- 08/29/18
H2O.ai, an artificial-intelligence platform producer, is partnering with AI4ALL, an Oakland, CA-based nonprofit working to increase diversity and inclusion in AI and to educate future AI workers about how it can be a force for social good. The goal: to democratize AI.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 06/19/18
A competition hosted by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is challenging humans to create algorithms for producing adaptive settlements in Minecraft. (These are the villages and cities and other environments that players create at will in the online game.) The competition addresses a fairly new area of inquiry for machine learning in games: how to develop algorithms that can design rather than play.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 05/31/18