Some of the most important decisions in our lives are being made by artificial intelligence, determining things like who gets into college, lands a job, receives social services, or goes to jail—often without us having any clue. In season one of In Machines We Trust, host Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology ReviewContinue reading “In Machines We Trust: a new podcast about the automation of everything on Flipboard by MIT Technology Review”
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A college student used GPT-3 to write fake blog posts and ended up at the top of Hacker News – The Verge
He says he wanted to prove the AI could pass as a human writer — Read on http://www.theverge.com/2020/8/16/21371049/gpt3-hacker-news-ai-blog
Tired of Zoom calls? Company offers at-home hologram machines – Reuters
Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? A Los Angeles company has created phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-hologram-idUSKCN2531D5
Upskilling Instructional Design Talent: Preparing for Quality Online Learning | EDUCAUSE
A new initiative aims to provide the skills and expertise that instructional designers need to help higher education meet its growing demands for onli — Read on er.educause.edu/blogs/2020/8/upskilling-instructional-design-talent-preparing-for-quality-online-learning
The Fine Line in Game Based Learning — THE Journal
Games can be powerful learning experiences, as long as adaptive learning doesn’t put an algorithm, rather than the student, in the driver’s seat. — Read on thejournal.com/articles/2020/08/04/the-fine-line-in-game-based-learning.aspx
Machines + Society #12: Tools for our brains; Social sphere packing; Fox Hunts – Machines + Society
Let’s build better tools for our brains. — Read on deaexmachinus.substack.com/p/machines-society-11-tools-for-our
Donald Clark Plan B: 100 learning theorists… 2500 years of learning theory…
Donald Clark Plan B: 100 learning theorists… 2500 years of learning theory… — Read on donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html
What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong | MIT Technology Review
In the first of a four-part series on FaceID, host Jennifer Strong explores the false arrest of Robert Williams by police in Detroit. The odd thing about Willliams’s ordeal wasn’t that police used face recognition to ID him—it’s that the cops told him about it. There’s no law saying they have to. The episode starts…Continue reading “What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong | MIT Technology Review”
10 Powerful Data Science Channels on YouTube | Learn Data Science
This article enumerates the top 10 data science YouTube channels to follow. Beginners can build their way from the very basics. — Read on http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/08/10-powerful-youtube-channels-for-data-science-aspirants/
Free Technology for Teachers: Two Ways to Quickly Create Transcripts of YouTube Videos
Free Technology for Teachers: Two Ways to Quickly Create Transcripts of YouTube Videos — Read on http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/two-ways-to-quickly-create-transcripts.html
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