Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life The Doomsday Invention Our Robotic Children: The Ethics of Creating Intelligent Life The fraudulent claims made by IBM about Watson and AI. They are not doing “cognitive computing” no matter how many time they say they are. Man whose drone got too close to...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Austin, TX Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter My Latest Book: The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology Essays Elsewhere Nope Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments of Thoughts The Week in Robots Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015? Other Projects I...

This post first appeared on aud.life FAA Will Test Drones’ Ability to Steer Themselves Out of Trouble Cop pulls over Google self-driving car, finds no driver to ticket Are Robots Threatening Jobs or Are We Taking Them Ourselves Through Self-Service Automation? Photographers and Filmmakers Using Drones to Reach New Heights...

This post first appeared on aud.life In a few weeks, I'll start my annual look back at the year in ed-tech. I still haven't narrowed down the "top trends" to just ten. Nor have I started the process of pouring back through each's week's news round-up that I write. But...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Nope Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Other Projects The whole week was spent on The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology, which I hope to wrap up...