What does AI mean for Education? -- Learning {Re}imagined
Will learner-centred AI be banned from classrooms like smartphones? I was struck by a statement in this promotional video for IBM's Watson AI technology that said, In the 30 or so years of working with digital platforms across the education and creative sectors I've noticed that these sort of claims appear every time a new bit of tech arrives. Watson, of course, is very smart technology. It hasn't passed the Turing test but it did beat the human champions on the TV trivia game show Jeopardy! It achieves this with some impressive computing power. Designed to answer questions within 3 seconds Watson's main innovation is its ability to quickly execute more than 100 different language analysis techniques to analyse the question, find and generate candidate answers, and ultimately score and rank them.
May-26-2016, 13:20:52 GMT
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