Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life I've spent the last month or so researching the blockchain and its potential applications in education. I've spent the last week or so typing up my thoughts. This morning, I published a 5000-word piece -- an introduction to the blockchain, aimed at the ed-tech...

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This post first appeared on aud.life Image credits: The Kitchen Robot of Tomorrow Is AlphaGo Really Such a Big Deal? Recalling Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics in the Age of Machine Interoceptors… Trump Deep Nightmare: Google’s Deep Dream AI run against a Donald Trump speech The Bot Rulebook The chat...

This post first appeared on aud.life Phil Hill has a new op-ed at The Chronicle of Higher Education (also re-posted to the E-Literate blog) about the need for ed-tech to support “vastly different types of professors,” not just the “ed-tech enthusiasts” but the “mainstream professors” as well. Let’s admit it,...

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This post first appeared on aud.life Peak robot? The most expressive robot in the world The rise of greedy robots A Japanese AI program just wrote a short novel, and it almost won a literary prize They said it couldn’t be done: Teaching robots good taste South Korean Government Announces...

This post first appeared on aud.life One of my favorite sports writers, Jessica Luther, was a guest on a recent episode of The Garbage Time Podcast with Katie Nolan. (You can listen via Soundcloud.) I follow Jessica’s work really closely, particularly her coverage of college sports and sexual violence. Too...

This post first appeared on aud.life Today’s iTunes update has re-ordered my album collection when I sort alphabetically by artist (the way I typically display my music using that piece of software). And it’s dumb. I’ve long been annoyed that it decided a-ha was first. Like, why does “a-” come...

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This post first appeared on aud.life Remember this date – 12 02 2012 – the day our species lost to AI - but won Welcome to the cyborg fair AI is closer than we know Artificial intelligence and language Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol Grabs Consolation Win Against Google’s AI How...