Tag Archives for Artificial Intelligence
Imagine how great universities could be without all those human teachers
Jill is an AI education tool. Her birth came about last year, when Goel was teaching an online class on artificial intelligence; his 300-odd students in the course were sending in thousands of questions at a time, and they piled … Continue reading
Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how
The most innovative AI breakthroughs, and the companies that promote them – such as DeepMind, Magic Pony, Aysadi, Wolfram Alpha and Improbable – have their origins in universities. Now AI will transform universities. We believe AI is a new scientific … Continue reading
Robot to host this year’s NDP
Edgar has the ability to ad-lib, which means he can come up with his own responses to questions posed to him, said Edgar’s maker, Dr Wong Choon Yue, 39, a research fellow at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) School of Mechanical … Continue reading
100 Data and Analytics Predictions Through 2021
Gartner’s top 100 predictions that are relevant to CIOs, CDOs, and data and analytics leaders to enhance their strategic plans. Read More
Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education
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, … Continue reading
University of Michigan launches its own self-driving shuttle service
The University of Michigan is trialling its own self-driving shuttle service, taking students on a two-mile trip from the North Campus Research Complex to the Lurie Engineering Center. Read More
Is speech recognition software having a renaissance?
The past months have witnessed breakthrough announcements from Microsoft, IBM, and Google, all hitting new marks in speech recognition accuracy; they claim that the error rate has reached 5.1 percent — the word error rate of humans. Read More
Press Association wins Google grant to run news service written by computers
News agency gets €706,000 to use AI for creation of up to 30,000 local stories a month in partnership with Urbs Media . Robots will help a national news agency to create up to 30,000 local news stories a month, … Continue reading
Virtual reality and smoothie bars: What’s in at Bay Area university libraries?
Librarians at UC Berkeley are holding workshops for students on what to do with the information they collect using drones. At Stanford, they’re experimenting with virtual reality. And across the Bay Area, as more textbooks gather dust and coursework moves … Continue reading
Demystifying AI and Big Data
Artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning and big data analytics are the tech world’s current buzzwords.The power and promise of these methods and technologies — and the hype surrounding them — has generated a huge wave of excitement, and many in … Continue reading