Audrey Watters

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...

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...