Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over Tinder robot behaves to palm sweatiness Do Robots Dream of Electric Arts Council Grants? Elon Musk’s Billion-Dollar AI Plan Is About Far More Than Saving the World Alpha 1s, A Programmable...

This post first appeared on aud.life Kin and I saw the new Star Wars movie last night. With the exception of the first movie back in 1977, I’ve seen all of the films on opening day. (I saw Episode IV at the Cooper Theatre in Denver, but not on opening...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: “The Employability Narrative” Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: Credits and Credentialing Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not) Support Hack Education Writing Elsewhere Hack Education Weekly Newsletter The...

This post first appeared on aud.life Tea Making Robot Teforia Brews Up $5.1 Million In Seed Funding The Three Laws of Robotics Google and Facebook Race to Solve the Ancient Game of Go With AI China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots Facebook Open Sources Its AI Hardware...

Travel Nope (unless driving to Long Beach to see live music counts) Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015 Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: The Politics of Education Technology Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: Standardized Testing Writing Elsewhere The Week in Robots Hack...

This post first appeared on aud.life ‘World’s sexiest robot’ causes a frenzy at Beijing tech conference Penn State imagines a world where robots write the books Automation is a Job Engine, New Research Says How Facebook’s AI Researchers Built a Game-Changing Go Engine Teaching AI to Play Atari Will Help...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Coding Bootcamps and the New For-Profit Higher Ed Essays Elsewhere Coding Bootcamps and the New For-Profit Higher Ed on educationfuturism.com Ed-Tech Funding: November 2015 on matrix.hackeducation.com Speaking Nope Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots...

This post first appeared on aud.life Road to Robotic Parking Is Littered With Faulty Projects Facebook Reveals The Secrets Behind “M,” Its Artificial Intelligence Bot Out of the Mouths of Bots Obama’s drone war a ‘recruitment tool’ for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers On truly democratizing data and the...

This post first appeared on aud.life 2015 has been a really terrible year for me, and I’m glad that we’re quickly approaching its end. It’s not as though things get magically better when we flip the calendar over to January. But I’m looking forward to 2016 nonetheless. Ugh. Except for...

Travel Austin, TX and Hermosa Beach, CA Upcoming week: No travel (and I'm hoping no more travel for the year) Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Nope Speaking I was on a panel on diversity at API Strategy and Practice Known Notes and Fragments...