The new EU AI Act bans ‘unacceptably risky’ AI applications, including emotion-aware systems which educational researchers believe can significantly improve learning in the classroom. Is the EU right to outlaw emotional AI for learning along with such nefarious uses as social scoring and behavioural manipulation? And with the diffusion of emotional AI in mainstream consumer products including virtual reality headsets, might the ban be a backward step for European learners?
Tag Archives: MachineLearning
Week notes: 17 July 2023
It may be wishful thinking to hope that AI will simply slot in to our current toolsets, making us more efficient at work. Even the current beta tools enable an order of magnitude increase in efficiency. Skill in doing a single thing will simply have no value. Instead, we will need skills in ‘multilearning’, or the ability to learn and deploy new knowledge and skills quickly. Very quickly.
Week notes: 19 June 2023
This week I am thinking about the innovation that isn’t. The innovation that doesn’t happen. I don’t mean innovation that fails. I mean innovation that simply doesn’t occur. The innovation that isn’t. Might machine and social learning reverse the stagnation of ideas?
Matthew Moran 