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Back in school, we all had that one subject that somehow was magically able to put us to sleep. Be it due to the teacher’s monotone voice, dry information, or a poorly ventilated classroom – either way, those academic hours seemed to have lasted a decade. Oh, how we wished we could watch TV or play computer games instead. Well, one teacher found a way to incorporate a popular video game into his lessons, capturing the attention of his students and millions of people online.More info: TikTokMiddle school teacher used an…

But what if an AI could learn like a baby? AI models are trained on vast data sets consisting of billions of data points. Researchers at New York University wanted to see what such models could do when they were trained on a much smaller data set: the sights and sounds experienced by a single child learning to talk. To their surprise, their AI learned a lot—thanks to a curious baby called Sam.  The researchers strapped a camera on Sam’s head, and he wore it off and on for one and a half years, from the time he was six…

I am at a fortunate stage of my parenting journey where I have a son old enough to have a girlfriend smart enough to give genuinely thoughtful gifts to her boyfriend’s dad at Christmas. This is how I came to unwrap Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us (About Life, Philosophy and Everything) by Jordan Erica Webber and Daniel Griliopoulos. Books are a risky thing to give as gifts because they, like video games, require an investment of time. You don’t throw them on calloused feet like a sock or slap them about your tired…

Human babies are far better at learning than even the very best large language models. To be able to write in passable English, ChatGPT had to be trained on massive data sets that contain millions upon millions of words. Children, on the other hand, have access to only a tiny fraction of that data, yet by age three they’re communicating in quite sophisticated ways. A team of researchers at New York University wondered if AI could learn like a baby. What could an AI model do when given a far smaller data set—the sights…

For this experiment, the researchers relied on 61 hours of video from a helmet camera worn by a child who lives near Adelaide, Australia. That child, Sam, wore the camera off and on for one and a half years, from the time he was six months old until a little after his second birthday. The camera captured the things Sam looked at and paid attention to during about 1% of his waking hours. It recorded Sam’s two cats, his parents, his crib and toys, his house, his meals, and much more. “This data set was totally unique,” Lake…

Move aside, Scarlet Witch. See you later, Doctor Strange. The MCU has a new strongest superhero. And his name is Sentry. Following Steven Yeun’s surprise exit, Lewis Pullman has signed up to join the cast of Thunderbolts as the aforementioned walking atom bomb of a character. Although he’s often called Marvel’s answer to Superman, in truth he’s closer to the godlike Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen, only with Thor’s luscious blond locks and without the indecent exposure. The potential for him in this franchise is…

For some scientists who are eager to talk with aliens, the best avenue isn’t any telescope pointed to the heavens but rather a boat slipping through the glassy waters of Alaska’s Frederick Sound. This area is a seasonal hotspot for humpback whales, whose eerie and enchanting submarine songs may serve as proxies for any alien transmissions that practitioners of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial  intelligence) may eventually receive. In a recent paper published in the journal Aquatic Biology, a group of researchers…

Sal Khan, the CEO of Khan Academy, gave a rousing TED Talk last spring in which he predicted that AI chatbots would soon revolutionize education. “We’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen,” Khan, whose nonprofit education group has provided online lessons for millions of students, declared. “And the way we’re going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor.” Videos of Khan’s tutoring bot talk…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot? Social robots—robots that can talk and mimic and respond to human emotion—have been introduced into classrooms around the world. Researchers have used them to read stories to preschool students in Singapore, help 12-year-olds in Iran learn English,…