Using AI well is not as simple as typing questions into a chat function. There are widely recognised ethical issues, including bias, privacy and misinformation.
Are concerns about AI a bridge across the polarization divide?
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It might seem like an obvious move to deploy drones to help look for flood victims, but floods pose unique challenges that stymie the technology.
Artificial intelligence has taken off on campus, changing relationships between students and professors and among students themselves.
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Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.
As artificial intelligence spreads to every corner of the modern workplace, entry-level roles are susceptible to being replaced by automation.
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The future of work isn’t about humans being replaced by robots, but about learning how to use the technology to enhance skills and creating new entry points into the professional world.
Andrew Lensen, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Most New Zealanders are worried about AI, but the government’s new strategy has little to reassure them. Emulating the EUs approach to managing risk might help.
Chatbot ‘therapists’ use artificial intelligence to mimic real-life therapeutic conversations.
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Patrick Dodd, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Universities have relied on expert knowledge being scarce, but AI is changing that. Tuition now needs to focus on human skills that machines still struggle to copy.
Companies are increasingly routing customers to chatbots. New research looks into whether customers prefer human or chatbots agents more, and under which circumstances.