Five ways artificial intelligence will shape the future of universities
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming many human activities ranging from daily chores to highly sophisticated tasks. But unlike many other industries, the higher education sector has yet to be really influenced by AI. More...
Congressional Hearing Focuses on Espionage
By Elizabeth Redden. A congressional hearing Wednesday focused on the vulnerability of U.S. academic institutions to foreign espionage activities and intellectual property theft. More...
Need a Teaching Assistant? AI to the Rescue
Techno-News Blog. Keeping up with the grade book, student correspondence, and the daily minutiae of teaching can be a serious drain. For many educators, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything well. Unfortunately, budget cuts and constraints often prevent teachers from hiring an assistant that they truly need. More...
Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
Magic AI: these are the optical illusions that trick, fool, and flummox computers
James Vincent, The Verge, 2018/04/06
A Reddit item on designing chess pieces cites this article from last year about something called 'adversarial images' - these are patterns that can fool an artificial intelligence into thinking one thing is something else. See also. It might make a face recognition system think you're the pope. Or it might cause a system to identify something as a weapon, or worse, an accordion. More...
Intelligence artificielle : être suiveur ou devenir leader ?
Deux initiatives fortes du gouvernement français cristallisent actuellement l’attention des acteurs de l’innovation. Au travers du plan stratégique de la France pour l’intelligence artificielle, il est manifeste que le président de la République souhaite reprendre la place que des politiques publiques peu appropriées ont fait perdre à la France sur le champ technologique au cours des décennies passées. Plus...
L’intelligence artificielle au rapport
Deux rapports sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA) viennent de paraître. Celui de Cédric Villani : "Donner un sens à l’intelligence artificielle - Pour une stratégie nationale et européenne". Et celui de France Stratégie : "Intelligence artificielle et travail". Zoom. Plus...
Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
Handy timeline with links to the important and authoritative works in artificial intelligence, including expert systems and neural nets. More...
Analytics on the go with Power BI
Analytics on the go with Power BI
Natalie Afshar, Australian Education IT blog, 2018/03/26
I've been involved in a Business Intelligence (BI) project for the last few months so I'm a bit more attentive to stories about BI in the ed tech press. This article is from the Microsoft publicity machine but it's a pretty good outline of how BI is being used by educators as they use "predictive analytics with Power BI to group students according to specific needs, and allow teachers to deliver lessons based on a child’s learning style." It also allows them to blend open data with school data. More...
Intelligence artificielle : " Il faut plus de recherche "
Cédric Villani, député LRM et mathématicien, détaille ses propositions en faveur du développement de l'IA. Dans la foulée, le président de la République devait annoncer des mesures pour développer ces technologies en France. Plus...