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Bill Gates Predicts Within 18 Months, AI Will Be Teaching Kids to Read
Historically, teaching writing skills has proven to be an incredibly difficult task for a computer, Gates noted. When teachers give feedback on essays, they look for traits like narrative structure and clarity of prose — a “high-cognitive exercise” that’s “tough” for developers to replicate in code, he said. But AI chatbots’ ability to recognize and recreate human-like language changes that dynamic, proponents say…
AI technology must improve at reading and recreating human language to better motivate students before it can become a viable tutor, Gates said… It may take some time, but Gates is confident the technology will improve, likely within two years, he said. Then, it could help make private tutoring available to a wide swath of students who might otherwise be unable to afford it…
“This should be a leveler,” he said. “Because having access to a tutor is too expensive for most students — especially having that tutor adapt and remember everything that you’ve done and look across your entire body of work.”
Gates isn’t the only billionaire thinking about how AI will affect education. Mark Cuban recently retweeted a prediction that GPT-4 “will revolutionize homeschooling.”
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Read the room
Let’s look into cybersecurity sales, developer content marketing, and fundraising pitches through a common lens: The importance of understanding your audience and putting it first.
Read the room by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
TaxWatch: What happens if you can’t pay your taxes? IRS has a payment plan — but read this before you sign up.
PiEEG is a Raspberry Pi-powered crowdfunding project to read brain bio-signals
Everything to read after HBO’s The Last of Us season 1 finale
The first season of HBO’s The Last of Us is over — and there’s a lot to dig into. Between the show’s heavy themes, its long-controversial ending, the way it changed and adapted the game, as well as the games themselves, we’ve got plenty of different stories to read after the finale. They span the last 10 years, from the onset of the original PS3 game all the way up to the TV show’s season 1 finale. Here are reviews, interviews, deep dives, and more to explore while we wait to see Ellie and Joel hanging out in the post-apocalypse once again.
The show
Our review of the entire first season
Co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann on adapting the story…
Will Your Next Audiobook Be Read by an AI? – CNET
I Read the Biden Administration’s New Cyber Policy So You Don’t Have To
Since taking office, Joe Biden has made it known that he’s going to take cybercrime seriously. It’s not the case that Biden is the world’s most tech-savvy octonarian, rather, he’s simply responding to security challenges that have developed on his watch—most notably a string of increasingly destructive cyberattacks…
AI Adviser ‘Hired’ By the Romanian Government To Read People’s Minds
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