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How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

ED Surge

Mike Caulfield: One of the primary things you're doing when you're reading on the internet is you're trying to decide if something's worth your attention or not. EdSurge: In the book you argue that one of the most important things to do when sorting through information online is what you call “critical ignoring.”

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10 Myths about Teaching with Tech

Ask a Tech Teacher

Another clever twist on the argument against keyboard training is that audio input will soon take over. No, it won’t, despite the 2009 robot who taught a Tokyo class and Elias, the Finnish primary school robot. It will be years before that can be incorporated into a robot or AI (artificial intelligence).

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

Nowadays, it encompasses artificial intelligence (AI), the brain-computer interface, synthetic biology, and even social and ethical analysis. One of the primary tasks for me is to order necessary supplies for the lab and maintain an organised inventory system to prevent any delays in research activities.

Biology 84
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0 In the past, people had painstakingly computed series approximations for specific cases.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

In 1956 McCarthy had been one of the organizers of the conference that coined the term “artificial intelligence”, and in 1958 McCarthy began the development of LISP (which was based on linked lists ). Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. It’s just my nature.