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Educators Team Up to Respond to Sudden Rise of ChatGPT

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The group plans to produce reports and guidelines for using AI in education; make policy recommendations for incorporating AI in school curriculum standards, courses, tools, assessments, and professional learning; and establish a global framework for computer-science curriculum that includes AI.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Our class has no prerequisites.

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Cyber security for the AI age

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Burcu studies cyber security, but not in the way that involves delving deep into computer code. I am interested in human-computer interaction and interface design,” she says. Many organisations buy software from suppliers, which is then downloaded onto company computers.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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At the University of East Anglia in the UK, Dr Oli Buckley’s research project is combining computer science and social science to answer these questions. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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We explored how people use associations with colours and line properties to communicate emotions,” says Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology. “In For the line drawings, we traced the contours with custom-made computer vision algorithms,” says Dirk. “We

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A www.learnpython.org ).

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Creating software that works for everyone

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APP — a computer program used to perform a specific function (e.g., SOFTWARE — the set of programs and other information that enables a computer or app to function. USER INTERFACE — the place where an end user interacts with a computer (e.g., Every human is different,” says Professor John Grundy.