Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education - EdSurge News

To explore what machine learning could mean in education, EdSurge convened a meetup this past week in San Francisco with Adam Blum (CEO of OpenEd), Armen Pischdotchian, (an academic technology mentor at IBM Watson), Kathy Benemann (CEO of EruditeAI), and Kirill Kireyev (founder of instaGrok and technology head at TextGenome and GYANT). As you shift from statistical evaluation models to deep machine learning [involving neural networks], what hasn't kept pace is "explainability." Now, say you have a neural network or some machine learning program that's better at predicting student outcomes. It's just another way to enable student learning and teacher practice.