Today, however, another revolution is unfolding that has potentially further reaching ramifications. According to experts, artificial intelligence is going to significantly change and alter the way humans manufacture, produce and deliver. In other words, it will change the way we work, live and connect with one another. Moreover, the scale of this change will be unlike anything we have experienced before. AI entails all attempts to make machines and devices think just like humans do.

The benefits will vary, but as with most cloud technology, it scales well to larger numbers of users and, even as pupils go back to colleges and enjoy the traditional fun and learning on campus, there will still be a growing need for bots that deliver help and support, especially if COVID or future impacts linger. Flexibility will be key, as Cambridge noted when it announced remote study until Summer 2021, saying "Lectures will continue to be made available online and it may be possible to host smaller teaching groups in person, as long as this conforms to social distancing requirements. This decision has been taken now to facilitate planning, but as ever, will be reviewed should there be changes to official advice on coronavirus." And digital tools like chatbots will deliver that flexibility as conversations can be updated in minutes to provide new information, or can add new features like in-chat videos or imagery to support lessons, or to highlight changes in campus rules, access, social distancing or more common changes. With many students considering their options, such as deferring, heading straight to work or looking at a safer place to study, colleges can use chatbots to help with retention strategies vital as many colleges face funding cuts or falling numbers.

There are three categories of AIEd tool being used in schools and colleges today: learner-facing (eg adaptive learning platforms), teacher-facing (eg automated assessment tools, or advanced teacher dashboards) and system-facing (eg analysing data from across schools to predict school inspection performance). The UK has a competitive advantage in education technology and artificial intelligence, but without government support and public funding this advantage risks being lost. Despite its huge potential, AIEd is underdeveloped. Our analysis identified only £1m of public funding for AIEd R&D since 2014 (far less than spending in comparable sectors such as healthcare). There are demand and supply-side market failures preventing development and maturity of AIEd, which government intervention can address.

By routing your camera feeds to our AI Engine, you can be informed in just 3 seconds when a firearm is detected in surveillance cameras. Additionally, this AI technology can track shooters in real time, providing shooter location(s) and fast live updates to police, school security and educators. In the wake of school shooting incidents over the past 10 years, people are anxious about creating safe environments. The ability to detect weapons on premises is unfortunately a necessity now. Cameras are already in place at most schools.

Not the Terminator kind that will take over the world. But definitely, the kind that are taking over our jobs! We live in an automated world, where our Uber rides are booked by Alexa and Siri gives us driving directions. PwC estimates that 30% of jobs will be impacted by automation by 2030. You and I may become irrelevant.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are two of the most exciting technologies currently being developed and applied within industries around the world. Their potential is almost limitless and their gradual implementation in various fields and sectors have been mostly met with widespread acclaim. The education sector is one of the industries set to benefit from the implementation of machine learning technologies in and around the classroom and various applications already exist that are helping schools, colleges and universities in making the transition to these new, ground breaking technologies. In this article, we'll be looking at five ways in which machine learning is transforming both education and the classroom, however, before we get into that, let's take a brief look at how machine learning came to be one of the most exciting technologies to ever hit the classroom. The idea of artificial intelligence being used within the education sector is an idea almost as old as the concept of AI itself.