Of all the areas of life where artificial intelligence will have an impact, the biggest might well be education. This is because learning is so important, and also because current provision often leaves a lot to be desired. This is not generally…

Since “2001: A Space Odyssey,” people have wondered: could machines like HAL 9000 eventually exist that can process information with human-like intelligence? Researchers at Michigan State University say that true, human-level intelligence remains a long way off, but their new paper published…

How to Get Started This article will teach you how to make a sprite move in Scratch, a free visual programming language. To follow along, make sure to first do these steps: Make an account at the Scratch website, https://scratch.mit.edu. Read our…

Advanced AI systems can figure out linguistic principles on their own, without first practicing on sentences that humans have labeled for them, according to new research. “In a sense, it’s nothing short of miraculous…” It’s much closer to how human children learn…

The term artificial intelligence (AI) was officially coined by John McCarthy in 1956. AI is now considered the most important thing mankind is currently working on. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, believes that this technology is even more significant than fire and electricity. So…

Let’s build a PacMan game — except without the maze! Use the arrow keys to control PacMan, and try to collect as many balls as you can without getting touched by the ghosts. Each time a ghost touches you, you lose a…

If you’ve read our previous article about making games in Scratch, you’ll know that games are an incredibly broad genre. Anything that has player input and an objective can be considered a game. However, the vast majority of games include more than…

We understand that transitioning across different teachers or mentors can be a bit difficult for students and families at times. But though not immediately obvious, there’s actually several reasons why exposing kids of all ages to multiple mentor figures can teach them…

Popular voice assistants such as Alexa, Siri and Google use speech recognition software to answer your questions, but kids’ language is highly complex and unpredictable. Children over-enunciate words, elongate certain syllables, punctuate each word as they think aloud or skip some words…