Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life Do we love robots because we hate ourselves? This Surveillance Drone Never Needs to Land Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them Elon Musk Admits Humans Can’t Be Trusted with Tesla’s Autopilot Feature Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in U.S. Robot...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter My Latest Book: Claim Your Domain Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Funding: The Halloween Edition on matrix.hackeducation.com Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Visualizing the Educational Industrial Complex (Poorly) The Revenge of the...

This post first appeared on aud.life Inside the Hunt for the ‘Master Algorithm’ of Artificial Intelligence Inside the surprisingly sexist world of artificial intelligence (I’m sorry. But why are we surprised?) ‘Killer Robots’ Must Be Stopped, Activists Say Why We Should Welcome Our New Robot Overlords Should We Be Excited...

Travel Olympia, WA and Hermosa Beach, CA. Upcoming week: No travel. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter The Algorithmic Future of Education The Web We Need to Give to Students Essays Elsewhere Fragments from South Africa on audreywatters.com The Algorithmic Future of Education on educationfuturism.com The...

This post first appeared on aud.life (I think) I’m done with speaking engagements for the year. As I did last year, I’m going to publish my talks as a book. And as it’s a follow-up to last year’s book, I’m calling it The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology....