Tag Archives: AI
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Alexa, Let’s Work on Your Communication Skills
October 21, 2019
As a speech-language pathologist, I am fascinated with how humans and voice interfaces (such as Amazon’s Echo, “Alexa”) communicate with each other. I was fortunate to be a member of a research team based at the University of Washington, in which we recruited 10 diverse families to incorporate an Amazon Echo Dot into their homes […]
Will AI Make Our Kids More Human? (or Steal Their Humanity?)
July 15, 2019
If we don’t plan our AI future, we risk handing our kids a world where machines make decisions for them and bias influences everything from routine policing to insurance decisions. To prepare this generation for what is coming, we must equip them with the ability to understand, question and manage AI in the world around […]
Iridescent’s AI Family Challenge Finds Parents’ Interest Outweighs Insecurity
December 11, 2018
A recent study commissioned by Iridescent revealed 78% of underrepresented families want to learn more about technologies like AI despite their mixed emotions about how these technologies work and their potential impact on jobs. The online study, conducted by VeraQuest, found that while 80% of low-income families believe technologies like AI will take away too […]
