Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life The Drone Papers It’s not AI until a robot can take an acid trip Firms Pit Artificial Intelligence Against Hacking Threats The Future of Work: Managing the Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial...

Travel Barcelona Upcoming week: Sun City Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Minimum Viable Ed-Tech: The VR Edition Essays Elsewhere The Functions of Education Technology Criticism on boundary2.org Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Ed-Tech as D&D A Proposal for Proponents of...

This post first appeared on aud.life Stephen Hawking: robots could give us all material abundance, unless rich people hoard all the wealth Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks by Observing Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion Anti-surveillance activists send a drone to pamphlet-bomb...

This post first appeared on aud.life I’m supposed to run a workshop next week in Sun City, and I really have no idea what I’m going to say or what we’re going to do. The title is something about the hype and hope and history of ed-tech. Not sure how...

This post first appeared on aud.life I left this comment for "A Proposal for Proponents of Ed Tech" -- it's a reminder that I wish Known would be a federated system for commenting, so that if I left a comment on a site I would always have a version here....

This post first appeared on aud.life Headline: Facebook Reaches Deal to Beam the Internet to Africa With a Satellite Actual story: “Facebook announced on Monday that it had joined with Eutelsat, a French satellite company, to provide a selection of free Internet services across sub-Saharan Africa using a satellite that...

Travel Hermosa Beach. Barcelona. Upcoming week: Barcelona. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Funding: The Year So Far (Sorta) on matrix.hackeducation.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots No Takers Turkle Reviled/Revisited Tech Journalism is Terrible (and To Be Honest,...

This post first appeared on aud.life IQ Test Result: Advanced AI Machine Matches Four-Year-Old Child’s Score Moon-Landing Equivalent for Robots: Assembling an IKEA Chair Remember EATR, the Military Robot That Was Supposed to Eat Humans? Apple removes an app that tracks U.S. military drone strikes from its store Are You...

This post first appeared on aud.life A friend of mine just wrapped up a stint as an op-ed writer for a major publication. She’s relieved, she says, to not have to come up with an opinion-a-week. (It was not just a matter of coming up with an opinion – it...

This post first appeared on aud.life There aren’t a lot of women who (get to) write “big ideas” books about technology. I can only name a handful. But one of them, Sherry Turkle, has a new book coming out. She’s in marketing mode at the moment, with a recent interview...