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AI Taking Over Education Software
- Slate, Monday, November 2, 2015 11:20 AM
Slate looks into the emerging field of artificially intelligent learning software, which some expect to one day replace textbooks and other learning materials. One of the more popular programs is ALEKS. “From the moment students begin to answer … practice questions that it automatically generates for them, ALEKS’ machine-learning algorithms are analyzing their responses to figure out which concepts they understand,” Slate writes.
