This week, Anthropic rolled out updates to its AI models and introduced a very interesting Computer Use API that allows AI to control your computer. Imagine a world where your computer anticipates ...

This is Part 6 of a series on AI in education. See Part 1 here. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (later immortalized by Walt Disney), a trainee makes a broom fetch ...

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept ...

When we discourage young people from learning to code or pursuing computer science, we limit their agency and abilities in a ...

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

Just as calculators once were banned from classrooms, and later embraced, AI technology is finding greater acceptance among ...

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The Williamsburg-James City County school system wants to lead the state in how artificial intelligence is used in the classroom. After creating a task force last fall to guide the ethical use of ...

I’ve had a lifelong love of learning, to the point where I used to read encyclopedias and dictionaries as a child, along with a variety of non-fiction books around specific topics. This love of ...

Personalisation is just one of the ways education providers are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report from the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services ...