Follow this link to a great article by by Rama Ramaswami on the use of Artifical Intelligence from T.H.E. Journal.
The feds’ reliance on standardized testing excludes the use of artificial intelligence, so school districts are forging ahead with the technology to power their own formative assessments.
IN THE STEVEN SPIELBERG MOVIE A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, the hero, an android, wants to become human because he believes it is a better state than his own. But sadly, he discovers there are some things that artificial intelligence just can’t do. AI’s condition is much the same in real life. The computer science visionaries of the 1950s and ’60s predicted with almost total certainty that machines would soon be able to understand and think like humans. But the evolution of AI has been far more prosaic– rather than priming a generation of robots to take over the world, it has become a pervasive tool that drives much of the technology behind finance, manufacturing, medicine, and a host of other industries…
