{"id":58445,"date":"2017-02-04T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=58445"},"modified":"2017-02-04T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:09:52","slug":"your-next-personal-robot-could-be-professor-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/02\/04\/your-next-personal-robot-could-be-professor-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your Next Personal Robot Could Be Professor Einstein&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouswonder.com\/next-personal-robot-einstein\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Your Next Personal Robot Could Be Professor Einstein<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouswonder.com\/next-personal-robot-einstein\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-58446 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ProfessorEinstein-Kickstarter-Feb2017.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ProfessorEinstein-Kickstarter-Feb2017.jpg 680w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ProfessorEinstein-Kickstarter-Feb2017-136x150.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">By the way, I&#8217;m not posting this to suggest that professors\/teachers\/trainers\/etc. are going away due to AI-based technologies.\u00a0 Humans like to learn with other humans (and we are decades away from a general AI anyway). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">That said, I do think there&#8217;s a place for technologies to be used as beneficial tools. In this case, such an AI-backed robot could help with some of the heavy lifting of learning about a new subject or topic. This interesting piece &#8212; currently out at Kickstarter &#8212; is a good example of the combination of a variety of technologies such as AI\/speech recognition\/natural language processing (NLP), robotics, and other technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Notice that you can download more interactive apps from the cloud with Professor Einstein. In other words, this is like a <em>platform<\/em>. (Along these lines&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/02\/amazon-fumbles-earnings-amidst-high-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\">developers gave Alexa 4000 new skills last quarter<\/a> &#8212; <em>Amazon is creating a platform as well.<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Bottom line: AI needs to be on our radars.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Next Personal Robot Could Be Professor Einstein &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; From DSC: By the way, I&#8217;m not posting this to suggest that professors\/teachers\/trainers\/etc. are going away due to AI-based technologies.\u00a0 Humans like to learn with other humans (and we are decades away from a general AI anyway). That said, I do think there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,354,556,356,394,45,32,210,141,82,821,309,437,40,312,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-av-audiovisual","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-attention","category-computer-science","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-engineering","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-platforms","category-robotics","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58451,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58445\/revisions\/58451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}