Synthetic intelligence may assist. A brand new software may enhance the one-on-one tutoring generally used to complement class instruction in these colleges, by letting tutors faucet into extra skilled lecturers’ experience throughout digital periods. Right here’s the way it works.
—Rhiannon Williams
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to search out you right this moment’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 Google is growing an AI agent known as Jarvis
It’ll be capable of do whole duties for you, like shopping for issues or making bookings. (The Data $)
+ What are AI brokers? (MIT Know-how Overview)
2 Far-right sheriffs are making ready to disrupt the election
And the means they’re planning to make use of are getting increasingly more violent. (Wired $)
+ Election officers are receiving an unprecedented variety of threats. (The Atlantic $)
+ Teams are coordinating on-line to unfold lies concerning the election. (NBC)
3 Take a look at the primary photos of the solar’s flares from a brand new NASA telescope
These storms are what’s behind the elevated visibility of shimmering lights in our night time skies lately. (NYT $)
4 Elon Musk appears to have briefly labored illegally within the US
Which makes his present obsession with borders look a tad hypocritical. (WP $)
+ Why is he backing Trump so enthusiastically? (Vox)
5 An AI transcription software utilized in hospitals invents issues nobody stated
OpenAI has stated its Whisper software shouldn’t be utilized in ‘high-risk domains’. However that’s precisely what’s taking place. (AP)
6 China is limiting entry to supplies wanted to make chips
It has a near-monopoly, so any squeeze on provide is prone to have an outsized affect. (NYT $)
+ What’s subsequent in chips. (MIT Know-how Overview)
7 A Neuralink rival says its eye implant restored imaginative and prescient to blind individuals
It’s an thrilling discovering—however nonetheless very early days for testing the know-how. (Wired $)
8 Nuclear energy is again in vogue
However whether or not constructing new reactors is the easiest way to quickly reduce emissions is debatable. (Nature)
+ Why synthetic intelligence and clear power want one another. (MIT Know-how Overview)
9 Is Boeing fixable?
It’s been in chaos for the most effective a part of 5 years, and the issues simply maintain piling up. (FT $)
10 Individuals have a number of love for Microsoft Excel
It’s been round for 40 years, throughout which period it’s gathered a surprisingly devoted fanbase. (The Guardian)
