Hands-on: Microsoft’s HoloLens Is Flat-Out Magical

For the second time in as many months, I feel like I've taken a step into the world of science fiction—and for the second time in as many months, it's Microsoft who put me there.

After locking away all my recording instruments and switching to the almost prehistoric pen and paper, I had a tantalizingly brief experience of Microsoft'sHoloLens system, a headset that creates a fusion of virtual images and the real world. While production HoloLens systems will be self-contained and cord-free, the developer units we used had a large compute unit worn on a neck strap and an umbilical cord for power. Production hardware will automatically measure the interpupillary distance and calibrate itself accordingly; the dev kits need this to be measured manually and punched in. The dev kits were also heavy, unwieldy, fragile, and didn't really fit on or around my glasses, making them uncomfortable to boot.

But even with this clumsy hardware, the experience was nothing short of magical.

Microsoft calls it holography. I'm not sure if it really is (Wired describes HoloLens' "light engine" as having a "grating," so perhaps it really is using interference patterns to reconstruct light fields rather than providing the same simple stereoscopic 3D found in VR systems), but this is a detail that only pedants will care about. (Though if it is true holography, it should solve the focus issue that many people find with existing 3D systems.)

However it works, HoloLens is an engaging and effective augmented reality system. With HoloLens I saw virtual objects—Minecraft castles, Skype windows, even the surface of Mars—presented over, and spatially integrated with, the real world.

It looked for every bit like the holographic projection we saw depicted in Star Wars and Total Recall. Except that's shortchanging Microsoft's work, because these virtual objects were in fact far more convincing than the washed out, translucent message R2D2 projected, and much better than Sharon Stone's virtual tennis coach. The images were bright, saturated, and reasonably opaque, giving the virtual objects a real feeling of solidity.

Minecraft comes alive

We ran through three interactive demos and watched a fourth. My favorite was Minecraft. I was in a room with a couple of tables and a picture on the wall. After putting on the headset and looking around the room so that the HoloLens could figure out where everything was, the world around me suddenly transformed. The table was no longer just a table. It had a big castle on it, with a river flowing beneath. The middle of the table was no longer there; I could peer through the hole to see the river below. As I moved around the room, I could examine the castle from all angles.

My attention was then turned to a second table which had something of a zombie infestation. Fortunately, the foolish zombies were clustered around a block of TNT. Detonating the TNT blasted through the table, revealing a lava pit below. The zombies toppled through the hole and fell to their deaths.

The picture frame on the wall now housed more TNT. Triggering it revealed a large cavern beyond—and out flew a bunch of blocky bats.

Through it all, the 3D effect was thoroughly convincing. The system felt very low latency; as I moved my head and walked around, the objects retained their positioning in the real world, with the castle, for example, never becoming detached from or wobbling around on the table. While Minecraft of course falls some way short of having photorealistic graphics, the melding of real and physical nonetheless felt convincing.

If Microsoft can get the price of HoloLens right, it could become the must-have Minecraft accessory at Christmastime. Microsoft's decision to buy Minecraft's developer all of a sudden makes sense.

Using Skype

A Skype demo was intriguing. I, with the headset, was talking to a person using regular Skype on a Surface Pro 3. The person was helping me wire up a light switch (and it seems that, yes, it was a real light switch with real electricity running through it). My assistant saw the world through my eyes; I saw him on a floating Skype pane that I could pin in place, where his head would remain. Using his Surface Pro 3 pen, the assistant drew diagrams showing me how to wire the switch up, pointing out which tool I should use for each task.

While I'm not so sure about the specific situation of using Skype to perform simple home repairs, the ability to overlay directions and guidance onto the real world feels like something that could be valuable in all manner of technical fields. The ability to see things through someone else's eyes is also intriguing. It almost brings to mind the film Strange Days, and I'm sure we can all remember what the S.Q.U.I.D.s were used for there; I imagine that HoloLens will find similar use cases.

Mission to Mars

Our third and final demo took me to the surface of Mars. I walked around a 3D world constructed from data captured by the Curiosity rover. (NASA intends to use HoloLens to explore data from Curiosity and collaboratively make decisions on how the rover should spend its time.) The experience reinforced just how immersive this kind of augmented reality can be; the Martian imagery obliterated most of the room I was in, except for a computer workstation. I joked that I was surprised to see a computer desk on the Martian surface, because that's what I was seeing.

The Mars demo extended the HoloLens experience in a few ways. In Minecraft and Skype, the interactivity was provided by a mix of voice command and hand gesture—a sort of finger wag serving as a mouse click—with the cursor driven by the direction I was looking. On Mars, I could use a mouse cursor to perform finer manipulations.

On Mars I was also joined by a second person, who appeared before me as a sort of golden apparition. This other person was using HoloLens, too, and so I could see a gaze line emanating from the face, showing me exactly what was being looked at. The apparition talked to me about some of the rocks and how they indicated that we were likely standing in what was once a lake bed.

Finally, the one non-interactive demo showed off HoloStudio, Microsoft's 3D modeling application for HoloLens. We saw a koala in a space suit and a monster truck assembled in front of us, again using a mix of voice and gesture control. Microsoft described this as "print preview for 3D printing;" by projecting the objects in 3D space and integrating them with the real world, artists and designers can get a sense of just how their objects will look before sending them to the 3D printer.

5 Reasons Outsourcing IT Can Be Good Business

Outsourcing is often seen as a taboo topic by aspiring entrepreneurs. On one hand outsourcing is great for reducing overhead, something any smart business leader wants. On the other, it’s consistently cited as one of the most disliked aspects of modern free enterprise. In matters of moving manufacturing from a company’s homeland to another nation for the sole-purpose of shaving some numbers off the end-of-year balance sheet, the subject remains hotly controversial. But for small businesses looking to save big on startup costs and management, outsourcing the IT wing of their enterprise is not only a smart way to rub-out unnecessary expenses, it’s not as wicked a move as they may think.

Here’s five reasons why outsourcing IT is good for entrepreneurs big and small:

1. Faster: Off-site IT management services chock-full of experience and dedicated infrastructure are going to operate much faster than the typically dinky, greenhorn, and grassroots efforts of self-operating equivalents seen in small businesses. Hitting the ground running is crucial to startup success, and technical snags are one of the leading causes of small enterprise stalls. Investing instead in a remote IT service helps maintain momentum, quickening growth and avoiding sluggish responses to problems.
2. Cheaper: This element of outsourcing is typically at the forefront of most thoughts on the benefits of the practice. In matters of outsourcing IT specifically, the cost-savings are obvious. No investing in your own tech department, nor employing your own IT workers. The very fact you don’t need the space for servers and work stations may even be enough to reduce your enterprise to a completely virtual existence, forgoing brick-and-mortar costs altogether.
3. Predictable: The rate of your future growth as a business is, at best, barely predictable and rarely predicted rightly. The demands in which such ups and downs can have on your departments can be daunting, and IT is no exception. Handing off the majority if not all of your IT responsibilities to specialists can allow you to focus on the rapid changes without worrying about altering your infrastructure in the process.
4. Not All-or-Nothing: Small businesses with much of their existence steeped in the digital world don’t have to hand over the tech duties with ties to executive decision-making over to a third-party. Many off-site IT management services allow companies to pick-and-choose which elements they’d like outsourced. It’s no sweat to opt for managed file transfer software, for example, but maintain a direct connection to web development.
5. Not as ‘Bad': Outsourcing has a notorious reputation for being destructive to a company’s homeland economy. But in matters of outsourced information technology services, it’s often the case for companies to find cost-effective solutions on native soil. Outsourcing doesn’t always involve taking a job from country A and moving it to country B. Sometimes it’s simply hiring another company, perhaps in another state or county, to handle a workload better alleviated from your small business.

Small businesses and start-ups face tremendous hurdles in the race to success. The energy required to make it there – capital – isn’t limitless. The potential for injury – business snags – will inevitably occur. Conserving the former and reducing risk for the latter is critical, and one of the smarter ways to do this is to outsource IT duties. It allows business leaders to increase productivity, save money, and focus exclusively on the tasks at hand unique to their market or industry. Additionally, outsourcing doesn’t have to be as controversial a technique as one might think.

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Tricks for Protecting Your Data

Your data is your business’ lifeblood. It’s your most valuable asset, and should be the source of your business’ competitive differentiation. It’s the one thing that you need to protect within the business above all else. And yet many organisations, through either poor backup or security practices, introduce great risk into their business through poor protection of their data.

There are two ways that organisations need to consider the protection of their data. On the one hand they need to take into account the security of the data, and on the other they need to consider the preservation of the data.

Security

There are a number of high profile examples of even the largest organisations having their data compromised by the malicious actions of hackers. It is of course difficult to properly lock down a network from the concentrated effort of those with malicious intent, but there are a couple of strategies that you should be adopting as standard in the interest of data security.

- Deploy defence-in-depth strategies. Emphasize multiple, overlapping, and mutually supportive defensive systems to guard against single-point failures in any specific technology or protection method. This should include the deployment of regularly updated firewalls as well as gateway antivirus, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), website vulnerability protection, such as a WAF with malware protection, and web security gateway solutions throughout the network. Don’t just rely on one product.

- Make it a policy to change both the passwords on user accounts and any key codes in the building regularly. People commonly forget to do this, but maintaining the same passwords of codes introduces an ever-escalating level of risk into the business.

- Don’t forget that you need physical security to go with passwords and authentication. In so many cases of data leakage, it has been due to the ability to physically enter networking cabinets, access servers, and storage drives.

- Implement a removable media policy. Where practical, restrict unauthorised devices such as external portable hard-drives and other removable media. Such devices can both introduce malware and facilitate intellectual property breaches, whether intentional or unintentional.

- Implement and enforce a security policy whereby any sensitive data is encrypted and limit who has access to the data. Only those individuals within the business that absolutely need the data should be able to access it. The more people that do have access to it, the harder it becomes to keep an eye on how the data is being used.

- Ensure you are performing regular, scheduled penetration tests. You should be performing pen tests at least annually to ensure no risks are present to your infrastructure.

Data preservation

Organisations also need to consider how to best preserve their data, so that they can efficiently recover it in the event of a disaster. This requires much more than keeping a single backup on a hard drive in order to guarantee yourself in the event of something major going wrong.

- Create an orderly process of backups. Regardless of whether you use the Cloud, or on-premises services (or a combination of both), you should have a process of backups. These should have a rapid restore option, some mid-tier storage, and then tapes or similar low-tier storage for archival purposes. In the event of a disaster, you want everyone involved in the restore having a clear action plan to ensure an efficient restoration of data.

- Keep at least one backup in a different location. In the event of a geographic disaster, you will want your backups to not have been compromised. If you are keeping tapes as a final archive, it’s also important to ensure that you’re storing them according to best practice to prevent degradation.

- Test the backups for integrity. Every so often a company will diligently adhere to a backup strategy, only to discover in the event of a disaster that the data is lost anyway, as the backups were faulty.

Finally, understand frequency. Backups can become very expensive if you become overeager with the rate in which you take snapshots. Instead, differentiate between the most critical and active sets of data, and take regular snapshots of those. For less important data it’s possible to take less frequent snapshots and conserve resources.

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Amazon Says One Million Customers Actively Use Its Cloud Services

Amazon says its pioneering cloud computing services are actively used by over one million customers.

The tech giant revealed the number day, during its fourth quarter earnings announcement. Each of those one million customers have used its cloud services during a recent one month period, the company said, and usage grew close to 90 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same quarter the year before.

The company still has not provided specific revenues for its cloud offerings, known collectively as Amazon Web Services, but it promised to reveal these numbers during its next earnings call.

Amazon Web Services provide a wide range of online tools that businesses and independent developers use to build and operate all sorts software, from web sites to data analysis tools to email systems. Basically, with these online services, people and companies can build stuff without setting up their own hardware tools.

Amazon pioneered this new breed of on-demand online computing about ten years ago, and though it now faces steep competition from Microsoft, Google, and others, it seems to dominate the market.

Now, we had least have some indication from Amazon about the size of its business. Previously, we’ve had to rely on studies from outside analysts. According to research firm DeepField, Amazon cloud services, at one point, could touches about one percent of all of the internet traffic in North America—an enormous amount.

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10 technologies that will make the Internet of Things a reality

10 technologies that will make the Internet of Things a reality 

1) Smart energy management

Energy management was one of the original focuses of Internet of Things development, with smart thermostats like Google Nest (above), Hive, Tado and Honeywell offering systems that allow home owners to adjust their temperature and hot water settings from a smartphone. Some of these systems also learn the user's habits and gradually adjust their settings to fit the users' preferences.

2) Smart lighting

Smart lighting systems like Philips Hue (above) allow users to adjust the colour and brightness of the lighting in their home from a smartphone, according to their mood. Similar lighting systems from companies like LG can also be programmed to act as an alarm clock, for example, getting gradually brighter from a chosen time in the morning, or blinking when the user gets a phone call.

3) Connected appliances

Being able to control your home appliances from your office has become a big area of growth for the Internet of Things. For example, users of Electrolux's CombiSteam oven (above) can turn the oven on, adjust the temperature and humidity, and watch their food cooking from their smartphone via an interior-mounted camera. Smaller appliances like Smarter's WiFi coffee machine, let you make a cup of freshly ground coffee while you are still in bed.

4) Smart security

Mobile devices are increasingly used for identity management. The Goji Smart Lock (above) bypasses the need for keys, allowing you to gain access to your home with the simple tap of a smartphone or electronic fob, and sends you a text when the locks are activated. Meanwhile, the Bluesmart suitcase can be unlocked from your phone and automatically locks itself when its built-in proximity sensors detect it is no longer near you.

5) Self-driving cars

The Internet of Things is not just about making things smarter in your home but also in your car. Google kickstarted consumer interest in self-driving cars last year, when it began testing its driverless vehicles in Silicon Valley. Since then, Mercedes (above), Audi and BMW have all announced their own self-driving car prototypes, some of which can be controlled using smartphones and even smart watches.

6) Self-tending gardens

Out in the garden, Parrot has been making a splash with its Flower Power H2O (above), which autonomously waters your plants using exactly the right amount of water at exactly the right time and gives you personalised advice through a smartphone app. Meanwhile, a smart garden system from Edyn monitors and tracks environmental conditions, helping you make your plants thrive.

7) Wearable health and fitness monitors

Wearable devices are often thought of as separate from the Internet of Things, but the health and fitness data from these gadgets is increasingly being fed back into the wider network. For example, Jawbone's Up fitness tracker (above) monitors sleep patterns and can set the alarm on your smartphone to go off at the best time, based on your body’s natural sleep cycle.

8) Drones

Drones are also often put in a category of their own, but beyond being amusing toys, they could also form an integral part of the Internet of Things. At CES, Intel showed off the anti-collision feature of the company's AscTec Firefly drone with Intel RealSense camera (above), proving that drones could soon be capable of autonomous navigation. Amazon has already shared its ambition to use drones for deliveries; other uses include watching live video feeds from the air.

9) Smarter city infrastructure

For the Internet of Things to really become a reality, the connectivity has to go beyond the products we use and become integrated into the environment around us. From traffic lights that adjest their waiting time based on congestion levels to parking systems that help drivers find a free parking space using a smartphone app (above), cities are becoming smarter by the day.

10) Faster, more intelligent networks

Beneath all of this lies the networks on which the Internet of Things will run. Huge investment is being made in networking technologies like 5G, ZigBee, and 'white spaces' to ensure that this infrastructure will be fast enough and affordable enough to support the influx of connected devices. Only when this is in place will the Internet of Things become a reality.

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The Changing Face of Software Development – The Agile Model

As businesses take a step ahead and realize the benefits of enterprise management, the importance of technology has become undeniable. Almost all organizations, big or small invest in software – whether for small modules or enterprise level integration.

In one of the fastest growing period for software development, amidst varying costs and outsourcing and offshoring modules, a few challenges have always remained when it comes to software development.

Information technology teams have often grappled with software requirements changing as organizations evolve and business strategies change. But the investment of money, time and effort required to make these changes often leaves many people frustrated. Traditional management systems seek feedback very late in the process and often in a sequential process, changes become difficult to achieve.

These issues have to an extent begun to get addressed as more IT teams and external vendors offering agile software development methods. This kind of developmental approach encompasses much more flexibility and practicality for developers to respond to feedback.

The foundation is by keeping programming simple so that changes can be quick. Feedback is not shelved until much later in the development cycle, it is taken very often by periodic and continuous testing. And the biggest advantage is that there is no sequence followed. As and when modules are made ready, they are rolled out to users.

Where earlier all software development were undertaken as big projects, the agile SDLC gives ample scope to break-down complex pieces of architecture into smaller packets with dedicated engineers working on each module. This provides for a lot creative iterations to developers and execution is faster and less affected by other parts of the project. This model is perfect for strategies that are evolving and may not have clearly defined objectives.

The approach also has a very high interactive element – which is one of the major challenges of a significant number of IT projects. The agile model basically can only succeed if there is adequate two way communication between developers and users and this helps resolve later changes or delays in development.

Another often heard complaint with traditional IT development is non-attention to user interfaces and design. Since this model demands constant communication between different teams as well as line managers and developers, design aspects can be closely monitored and fixed through the development process.

Since developer teams working through smaller modules in the agile software development life cycle have a lot of freedom to work on independent segments, responsiveness increases tremendously.

Another major advantage of this approach is that modules are much cleaner. Since testing happens almost simultaneously and quickly and over relatively smaller pieces of code, bugs can be easily detected and removed before delivering to the end-user. This enhances overall user experiences manifold.

Traditional IT teams often struggle to create buy-in from line managers for several functional aspects of modules. The agile model creates the perfect platform for in-house IT teams, external software development teams and business managers to meet common objectives seamlessly.

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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Reinvent Education

For decades, science fiction authors, futurists, and movie makers alike have been predicting the amazing (and sometimes catastrophic) changes that will arise with the advent of widespread artificial intelligence. So far, AI hasn’t made any such crazy waves, and in many ways has quietly become ubiquitous in numerous aspects of our daily lives. From the intelligent sensors that help us take perfect pictures, to the automatic parking features in cars, to the sometimes frustrating personal assistants in smartphones, artificial intelligence of one kind of another is all around us, all the time.

While we’ve yet to create self-aware robots like those that pepper popular movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, we have made smart and often significant use of AI technology in a wide range of applications that, while not as mind-blowing as androids, still change our day-to-day lives. One place where artificial intelligence is poised to make big changes (and in some cases already is) is in education. While we may not see humanoid robots acting as teachers within the next decade, there are many projects already in the works that use computer intelligence to help students and teachers get more out of the educational experience. Here are just a few of the ways those tools, and those that will follow them, will shape and define the educational experience of the future.

1) Artificial intelligence can automate basic activities in education, like grading.

In college, grading homework and tests for large lecture courses can be tedious work, even when TAs split it between them. Even in lower grades, teachers often find that grading takes up a significant amount of time, time that could be used to interact with students, prepare for class, or work on professional development. While AI may not ever be able to truly replace human grading, it’s getting pretty close. It’s now possible for teachers to automate grading for nearly all kinds of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank testing and automated grading of student writing may not be far behind. Today, essay-grading software is still in its infancy and not quite up to par, yet it can (and will) improve over the coming years, allowing teachers to focus more on in-class activities and student interaction than grading.

2) Educational software can be adapted to student needs.

From kindergarten to graduate school, one of the key ways artificial intelligence will impact education is through the application of greater levels of individualized learning. Some of this is already happening through growing numbers of adaptive learning programs, games, and software. These systems respond to the needs of the student, putting greater emphasis on certain topics, repeating things that students haven’t mastered, and generally helping students to work at their own pace, whatever that may be. This kind of custom tailored education could be a machine-assisted solution to helping students at different levels work together in one classroom, with teachers facilitating the learning and offering help and support when needed. Adaptive learning has already had a huge impact on education across the nation (especially through programs like Khan Academy), and as AI advances in the coming decades adaptive programs like these will likely only improve and expand.

3) It can point out places where courses need to improve.

Teachers may not always be aware of gaps in their lectures and educational materials that can leave students confused about certain concepts. Artificial intelligence offers a way to solve that problem. Coursera, a massive open online course provider, is already putting this into practice. When a large number of students are found to submit the wrong answer to a homework assignment, the system alerts the teacher and gives future students a customized message that offers hints to the correct answer. This type of system helps to fill in the gaps in explanation that can occur in courses, and helps to ensure that all students are building the same conceptual foundation. Rather than waiting to hear back from the professor, students get immediate feedback that helps them to understand a concept and remember how to do it correctly the next time around.

4) Students could get additional support from AI tutors.

While there are obviously things that human tutors can offer that machines can’t, at least not yet, the future could see more students being tutored by tutors that only exist in zeros and ones. Some tutoring programs based on artificial intelligence already exist and can help students through basic mathematics, writing, and other subjects. These programs can teach students fundamentals, but so far aren’t ideal for helping students learn high-order thinking and creativity, something that real-world teachers are still required to facilitate. Yet that shouldn’t rule out the possibility of AI tutors being able to do these things in the future. With the rapid pace of technological advancement that has marked the past few decades, advanced tutoring systems may not be a pipe dream.

5) AI-driven programs can give students and educators helpful feedback.

AI can not only help teachers and students to craft courses that are customized to their needs, but it can also provide feedback to both about the success of the course as a whole. Some schools, especially those with online offerings, are using AI systems to monitor student progress and to alert professors when there might be an issue with student performance. These kinds of AI systems allow students to get the support they need and for professors to find areas where they can improve instruction for students who may struggle with the subject matter. AI programs at these schools aren’t just offering advice on individual courses, however. Some are working to develop systems that can help students to choose majors based on areas where they succeed and struggle. While students don’t have to take the advice, it could mark a brave new world of college major selection for future students.

6) It is altering how we find and interact with information.

We rarely even notice the AI systems that affect the information we see and find on a daily basis. Google adapts results to users based on location, Amazon makes recommendations based on previous purchases, Siri adapts to your needs and commands, and nearly all web ads are geared toward your interests and shopping preferences. These kinds of intelligent systems play a big role in how we interact with information in our personal and professional lives, and could just change how we find and use information in schools and academia as well. Over the past few decades, AI-based systems have already radically changed how we interact with information and with newer, more integrated technology, students in the future may have vastly different experiences doing research and looking up facts than the students of today.

7) It could change the role of teachers.

There will always be a role for teachers in education, but what that role is and what it entails may change due to new technology in the form of intelligent computing systems. As we’ve already discussed, AI can take over tasks like grading, can help students improve learning, and may even be a substitute for real-world tutoring. Yet AI could be adapted to many other aspects of teaching as well. AI systems could be programmed to provide expertise, serving as a place for students to ask questions and find information or could even potentially take the place of teachers for very basic course materials. In most cases, however, AI will shift the the role of the teacher to that of facilitator. Teachers will supplement AI lessons, assist students who are struggling, and provide human interaction and hands-on experiences for students. In many ways, technology is already driving some of these changes in the classroom, especially in schools that are online or embrace the flipped classroom model.

8) AI can make trial-and-error learning less intimidating.

Trial and error is a critical part of learning, but for many students, the idea of failing, or even not knowing the answer, is paralyzing. Some simply don’t like being put on the spot in front of their peers or authority figures like a teacher. An intelligent computer system, designed to help students to learn, is a much less daunting way to deal with trial and error. Artificial intelligence could offer students a way to experiment and learn in a relatively judgment-free environment, especially when AI tutors can offer solutions for improvement. In fact, AI is the perfect format for supporting this kind of learning, as AI systems themselves often learn by a trial-and-error method.

9) Data powered by AI can change how schools find, teach, and support students.

Smart data gathering, powered by intelligent computer systems, is already making changes to how colleges interact with prospective and current students. From recruiting to helping students choose the best courses, intelligent computer systems are helping make every part of the college experience more closely tailored to student needs and goals. Data mining systems are already playing an integral role in today’s higher-ed landscape, but artificial intelligence could further alter higher education. Initiatives are already underway at some schools to offer students AI-guided training that can ease the transition between college and high school. Who knows but that the college selection process may end up a lot like Amazon or Netflix, with a system that recommends the best schools and programs for student interests.

10) AI may change where students learn, who teaches them, and how they acquire basic skills.

While major changes may still be a few decades in the future, the reality is that artificial intelligence has the potential to radically change just about everything we take for granted about education. Using AI systems, software, and support, students can learn from anywhere in the world at any time, and with these kinds of programs taking the place of certain types of classroom instruction, AI may just replace teachers in some instances (for better or worse). Educational programs powered by AI are already helping students to learn basic skills, but as these programs grow and as developers learn more, they will likely offer students a much wider range of services. The result? Education could look a whole lot different a few decades from now.

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