Audrey Watters

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...

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This post first appeared on aud.life The blunt, pathetic reality today is that a little old lady has died, who in the winter of her life had to water roses alone under police supervision. If you behave like there’s no such thing as society, in the end there isn’t. Her...

This post first appeared on aud.life This new robot skin can glow, stretch – and walk Taking Baby Steps Toward Software That Reasons Like Humans Google’s AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No Game Almost human The Cybernetics of Learning in Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask...

This post first appeared on aud.life In addition to working on an article on the history of virtual reality in education and a research project on the future of the blockchain in education, I’ve got these topics on the back burner: The history of E-Rate. Who pushed for this? Who...

This post first appeared on aud.life I remember attending an “big data” event a couple of years ago where one panel debated the future of expertise. Thanks to algorithms and “the unreasonable effectiveness of data,” one panelist insisted, we’ll soon see the end of expertise as well as the end...

This post first appeared on aud.life I live in HB. It’s a small city – LA is made up of tons of these – with an area less than 1.5 square miles. One of its best features, I think, is The Strand, a paved path that runs for 22 miles...

Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News The Allure of “Matrix-Style Learning” Writing Elsewhere Hack Education Weekly Newsletter via tinyletter.com The Week in Robots on aud.life The Allure of “Matrix-Style Learning” on medium.com The Blockchain in Education: More Links on aud.life Some Thoughts on “Coding” and “Technical Ghettos” on aud.life Journalism!...

This post first appeared on aud.life Image credits: Here there be robots: A medieval map of Mars Nessie, the Educational Robot Five Million Robots and Counting: A Developer Grows in Brooklyn Stupid Tutoring Systems, Intelligent Humans Google’s Artificial Intelligence Gets Its First Art Show Start-Up Lessons From the Once-Again Hot...

This post first appeared on aud.life I get it. I do. I worked briefly as a tech blogger, and I understand that the job often requires you publish multiple stories a day (it was between 4 to 6 in my case), for which you’re paid piecemeal. There’s not a lot...