Andrew Ng who previously led Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence effort and the creator of Google’s deep-learning Brain project. He feels that not all jobs are in danger of automation but call center operators, some kinds of radiologists, car-truck and taxi drivers are in jobs that will be automated. However there are other jobs teachers and other …
Bill Gates and Gates Foundation were one of the main backers of the Common core education program. The US education system had been bad before Bill Gates, George HW Bush and Obama and No child left behind and Common Core. However, the last 17 years have been continued failure in improving education in the USA. …
HRL Laboratories, LLC, researchers have determined how non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning. The researchers found that when applied to the prefrontal cortex, tDCS affects a wide portion of the brain, causing changes in functional connectivity between different brain areas that increased learning speed in macaques. They can now …
The $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE is funded by a group of donors including the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, the Econet Foundation, Scott Hassan, the Merkin Family Foundation, John Raymonds, the Anthony Robbins Foundation and Suzanne West and Elon Musk. Teams from around the world have worked to develop open-source and scalable software …
Previously the main campaign for parents was to have them tell their children to wait until they are 17 or 20 to have sex, the new campaign is to Wait until 8th [grade] for smartphones. More than 2,000 parents with children in more than 500 schools across the country have signed the pledge at waituntil8th.org …
Singularity University Global Summit 2017 has an AI panel with Peter Diamandis, Jeremy Howard (founding research Fast.ai) and Vivienne Ming (co-founder manager partner Socos). Vivienne Mings rates AI as a top tool for solving world problems. Jeremy notes that great positive and great negative situations can both exist at the same time in the world. …
Prof Adam Balen, president of the British Fertility Society, said that he had noticed a “big shift” in UK society, with many university-educated women delaying starting a family. “In my clinic I certainly see more older women seeking fertility treatment than in the past,” he said. The research comes amid a sex imbalance at British …
There are many examples where costs have gone up well over ten times in education, healthcare and other areas but have not had the proportional improvement. Some importnant things cost 10 times as much, 10 times more than they used to and 10 times more than in other countries Inflation-adjusted cost of a US university …
Four years ago, researchers at MIT’s Media Lab developed a computer vision system that can analyze street-level photos taken in urban neighborhoods in order to gauge how safe the neighborhoods would appear to human observers. Now, in an attempt to identify factors that predict urban change, the MIT team and colleagues at Harvard University have …
SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son his belief that computers will exceed humans in intelligence in three decades, and that within this period he expects one computer chip to have the equivalent of a 10,000 IQ. “I really believe this,” he said at a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. The …
Our Sun experiences an 11-year activity cycle. At the solar minimum, the Sun is nearly spot-free. At solar maximum, typically more than 100 sunspots cover less than one percent of the Sun’s surface on average. A new study finds that Proxima Centauri undergoes a similar cycle lasting seven years from peak to peak. However, its …