Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that ...

Artificial Intelligence California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It can’t answer one crucial question The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on ...

Director of Special ProjectsRamsey Isler is director of special projects at CalMatters and The Markup. He focuses on strategy and tactics for optimizing the delivery of the newsroom’s work, including ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

News With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up? States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and ...

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Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...

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Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...

An illustration of a Taser-equipped drone, taken from Axon’s patent application. Axon In the wake of the board’s dissolution, Axon halted its Taser-drone program temporarily. Former board members, ...

Machine Learning Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English Around the world, these seven teachers are making AI work for them and their students By ...