Artificial Intelligence and education: moving beyond the hype

We are living in an age of disruption and one of the drivers of that change is a development that many people call Artificial Intelligence. It is a very broad heading under which many people seem to pin their hopes and fears. AI has been portrayed as an existential threat to humanity, or as just an excel sheet on steroids. Some, like Ray Kurzweil, point towards the Singularity when we reach real Artificial Intelligence. Just like a gravitational singularity where gravitational tidal forces become infinite this Singularity will be an Event Horizon- a point of no return -- a place and time which we can't see beyond.