Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education

Don't doubt it: Machine learning is hot--and getting hotter. For the past two years, public interest in building complex algorithms that automatically "learn" and improve from their own operations, or experience (rather than explicit programming) has been growing. Call it "artificial intelligence," or (better) "machine learning." Such work has, in fact, been going on for decades. More recently, Shivon Zilis, an investor with Bloomberg Beta, has been building a landscape map of where machine learning is being applied across other industries.