Piotr MaczugaApple joins Amazon, Google, Facebook in ‘Partnership on AI’ research projectverified_publisherVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienAn AI research group backed by some of the biggest names in tech announced today that another giant was joining its project. Partnership on AI wrote in a blog post that Apple would become a founding member. Apple will now work alongside original founding members Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, …
Piotr MaczugaAmazon launches Amazon AI to bring its machine learning smarts to developersverified_publisherTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisAmazon today announced the launch of its new Amazon AI platform at its re:Invent developer event in Las Vegas. This new service brings many of the machine learning smarts Amazon has developed in-house over the years to devs outside the company. For now, the service only makes three different tools …
Piotr MaczugaThe Great A.I. Awakeningverified_publisherThe New York Times - By Gideon Lewis-KrausPrologue: You Are What You Have Read Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media. Apparently Google …
Piotr MaczugaCould online tutors and artificial intelligence be the future of teaching?verified_publisherThe Guardian - Hannah DevlinOnline maths company has partnered with scientists to identify what makes lessons successful - and to see if AI can be used to improve teaching
Piotr MaczugaA top futurist predicts the largest internet company of 2030 will be an online schoolverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Chris WellerThirty years ago, it was a big deal when schools got their first computers. Today, it's a big deal when students get their own laptops. According to futurist Thomas Frey, in 14 years it'll be a big deal when students learn from robot teachers over the internet. It's not just because the technology …
