Listening to the radio this morning, I heard a story about a former FBI agent who had come out of retirement to reopen a very old case: who tipped off the Gestapo to Anne Frank’s whereabouts? There have been two investigations into the circumstances leading up to the arrest of the young diarist and her family on 4 August 1944 in Amsterdam, but this newest attempt is using artificial intelligence (AI). More...
Le travail manuel parait sans intérêt par rapport au travail de l'esprit. Répétitif, routinier et dénué de réflexion sur ses finalités, il provoquerait même un appauvrissement de l'intelligence. Plus...
Par Christophe Faurie. Le professeur Marcotorchino dit que l’intelligence artificielle (IA) est un « problème mal posé ». L’IA est beaucoup moins neuve et révolutionnaire qu’on ne l’entend. Plus...
Blog "Il y a une vie après le bac" d'Olivier Rollot. « Les illettrés du XXIème siècle ne seront pas ceux qui ne savent pas lire ou écrire mais ceux qui ne savent pas apprendre, désapprendre et réapprendre », prédisait le futurologue Alvin Toffler dès les années 70. Mais que faut-il apprendre dans un monde déjà dominé par les nouvelles technologies et demain par l’intelligence artificielle ? Et comment. Plus...
Pymetrics raises $8 million for job-matching with AI and neuroscience games
Bérénice Magistretti, Venture Beat, 2017/10/02
Venture Beat highlights the funding, but I'm more interested in the direction being taken by the technology. Here's the idea: "We collect dense behavioral data from successful professionals in various roles and use machine learning to build models of which traits separate the successful professionals from the general population." This was the idea behind what we called 'Automated Competency Detection and Recognition'. More...
Packback is an education technology company that builds “smart” discussion communities to allow professors to promote and assess critical thinking in students. Packback builds artificial intelligence to automate activities required to maintain and facilitate academically rigorous discussions. More...
By Yojana Sharma. Universities in China and elsewhere in Asia are belatedly joining global alliances to promote ethical practices in artificial intelligence or AI, which were previously being studied in university research centres in a fragmented way. More...Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab's Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world's first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration. More...
By Lindsay McKenzie. Many campus investments in information technology aren't necessarily paying off, according to the National Survey of Computing, eLearning and Information Technology. The survey of IT leaders, conducted by the Campus Computing Project, found that many see only modest benefits from IT investments, and generally low satisfaction with many IT services on campus. More...
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