Audrey Watters

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: HB mostly (Kin will be in SF), then to Barcelona. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Essays Elsewhere Nope. Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots The Californian Ideology and the Future of… 500 Words What We Don’t Know...

This post first appeared on aud.life Freddie deBoer has an article in the latest Full Stop Quarterly about Google’s Deep Dream and the failures of tech journalism to correctly explain the project. It’s just the latest example of tech journalism’s deficiencies, but it’s a fairly significant one, I’d argue, as...

This post first appeared on aud.life Earlier this year, I was at an API event chatting with @wirehead about my progress on Teaching Machines and about the history of education psychology and education automation, when he made a really sharp observation that’s stuck with me since: “In a couple of...

This post first appeared on aud.life I was supposed to finish Teaching Machines this summer. That didn’t happen. Instead of a summer of (book, idea) creation, I had a summer of great loss. I was supposed to finish Teaching Machines in September. That didn’t happen either. I had forgotten, I...

This post first appeared on aud.life Software Is Smart Enough for SAT, but Still Far From Intelligent Is this clever robot proof machines will inherit the earth? AI Helps Humans Best When Humans Help the AI IBM’s A.I. System Watson to Get New West Coast Home IBM Wants Watson to...

This post first appeared on aud.life I submitted the title of the keynote I'll deliver next month at the ICDE conference in South Africa: "Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education." It's the middle phrase in that series that I've been thinking about this week, in...

Travel Nope. (Kin was in PDX briefly.) Upcoming week: Nope. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse … Now What? Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Might Make Things Worse … Now What? on medium.com Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots...

This post first appeared on aud.life The Inevitabilities of Killer Robots Hot New Parenting Trend: Using a Drone to Pull Out a Kid’s Loose Tooth Don’t Have Sex With Robots, Say Ethicists The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home Robot Journalists or Robot Press Secretaries? Why Automated Reporting Doesn’t...

Travel Nope. Upcoming week: Nope. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Existing Digitally Essays Elsewhere Nope. Speaking Kin and I spoke at Emerson College in LA about “reclaim your domain” – the notes from our talk are above. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots...

This post first appeared on aud.life British man builds helicopter from 54 drones & garden chair Jerry Brown Shoots Down Drone Privacy Bill Animals vs Drones Silicon Valley is raiding tech academia: “Uber would like to buy your Robotics Department” Dawn of the automatic age Your liberty will not survive...