Stories about educational technologies, virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, gamification and other tech
Listen to the story {Play} Artificial Intelligence often in movies represents the evil force in the story. In this spirit researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab have developed Shelley AI that writes its own scary stories and continues stories that already have been started. The Shelley …
Listen to the story {Play} Understanding human language is one of the keys to expanding the limits of Artificial Intelligence beyond today’s development level. This is the conclusion in the book In Linguistics for the Age of AI by Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg, both at the Department of Cognitive …
Listen to the story {Play} Let’s recapture a scenario that most people will enter, the job interview, including the tension and fears of making mistakes, giving the wrong impression. Of course, you can have training sessions with human job coaches. But they still are limited in time and space. Especially …
The areas of use are many for eye-tracking technology, besides the augmented experience in games and other interactive applications, and the practical improvement of different human behavioural diagnoses like to discover dyslexia, assistive communication, market research, AR/VR, security system in vehicles, and research, etc. With Apple, Google, Tobii, Smarteye, and …
What is the next generation artificial intelligence? What about its learning abilities? And ethics that surround it? Josh Tenenbaum, at the Computational Cognitive Science lab at MIT, describing to MIT Technology Review that the next generation Artificial Intelligence will have a stronger connection to cognitive science and neuroscience. Professor Tenenbaum …
How can you make the work environment more effective with interactivity, more human-centric and last but not least … fun? Ok, let’s see, imagine the scene where the staff of a project entering the conference room, the project leader says: “Watson, bring me the last working session.” The computer recognizes …
Learning to speak a new language brings health benefits and in addition. We could be predisposed to speak more than one language, new research suggests. In this spirit, multilingualism has shown to have social, psychological and lifestyle advantages as well as direct health benefits like faster recovery from a stroke …
Last week the Federal Government of Germany decided on a new blockchain strategy. This also included education with the “IMPact Digital” project. Where the goal is to provide safe digitalisation and administration of certificates. As some of the main benefits of blockchain technology within education (and other sectors) is that it …
What happens if you combine eye-tracking, VR and analytics? The answer is that you get an environment to monitor what drives human attention. This is performed across an unlimited number of hypothetical scenarios. This includes areas like improving marketing. Where e.g. a retailer that quickly can optimize a store design …
Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. It is the first non-human to receive citizenship in a country. When it received citizenship in Saudi Arabia in October 2016 as the first non-human ever in any country. Artificial intelligence is developing fast. Something which is …
