Deep neural networks excel at finding patterns in datasets too vast for the human brain to pick apart. That ability has made deep learning indispensable to just about anyone who deals with data. This year, the MIT Quest for Intelligence and the…
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived, changing the world around us in exciting and unpredictable ways. We are getting accustomed to AI and our children will be highly dependent on it. AI helps bring about new careers, discover new drugs,…
There’s one sure thing you can say about data science — it’s a lot of things. Data science is not necessarily one single discipline, skillset or methodology. This is why data science is always said to be an ‘interdisciplinary branch’ of science that…
Understanding the human elements and how to work with them are important aspects of data science. The field of organizational psychology has given us many insights into human behavior, motivations, fears, and values that can help data scientists understand their customers better….
Information firehose: The standard practice for teaching a machine-learning algorithm is to give it all the details at once. Say you’re building an image classification system to recognize different species of animals. You show it examples of each species and label them accordingly:…
In 2015, Ashok Goel and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology informed a class of students that a new teaching assistant named Jill Watson would be joining their course on artificial intelligence. They left out an important detail, however: Jill Watson is,…
One silver lining of COVID-19 is that it exposed failed legacy systems and processes, forcing organizations to digitally transform. One area that has benefited is education. There is a quiet revolution underway that is challenging assumptions we have held for more than…
There is a popular media narrative that AI will take over teachers. If anything, AI will be a new tool in teachers’ toolkits. Teachers spend a good portion of their time reeling with administrative burdens. AI will not replace them but free…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the subject of both hype and horror in education. During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, AI in education (AIed) attracted serious investor interest, market speculation, and enthusiastic technofuturist predictions. At the same time, algorithms and statistical models were implicated in several…
Artificial Intelligence has been creating a buzz for some time, along with Machine learning and Big Data. It is transforming companies and competitive sectors, but it has only started to understand its educational applications. Today we can see AI’s impact both in classroom…
