Trevor Noah joined a 5th grade computer science class in Bellevue for Code.org’s Hour of AI, a Microsoft-supported initiative ...
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If you have pre-school-aged grandchildren, or kids in the first couple of years of primary school, it is almost certain that they will have watched YouTube this week. That is because YouTube – for ...
Two former Australian prime ministers have thrown their support behind a campaign urging the government to give social media users more control over the content they see. Malcolm Turnbull has backed ...
But TCS coming to hire two bus loads of kids every year will not happen. The kind of expertise that will be taught in college ...
Artificial intelligence systems absorb values from their training data. The trouble is that values differ across cultures. So ...
While AI can be used to help solve problems and even generate computer programs, AI does not replace the need for computational thinking. These skills actually become more importa ...
Across the US, the rise of dedicated AI-undergraduate degrees – something almost unheard of a decade ago – marks one of the ...