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New Orleans Artificial intelligences place in schools may be poised to grow, but school districts and companies have a long way to go before teachers buy into the concept.

At a session on the future of AI in school districts, held at the ISTE conference this week, a panel of leaders discussed its potential to shape classroom experiences and the many unresolved questions associated with the technology.

The mention of AI can intimidate teachers asits so often associated with complex code and sophisticated robotics. But AI is already a part of daily life in the way our phones recommend content to us or the ways that our smart home technology responds to our requests.

When AI is made relatable, thats when teachers buy into it, opening doors for successful implementation in the classroom, panelists said.

AI sounds so exotic right now, but it wasnt that long ago that even computer science in classrooms was blowing our minds, said Joseph South, chief learning officer for ISTE. South is a former director of the office of educational technology at the U.S. Department of Education.It doesnt matter how much we do out here. If the teacher doesnt believe in what youre bringing to the table, it will not be successful.Nneka McGee, South San Antonio Independent School District

The first step in getting educators comfortable with AI is to provide them the support to understand it, said Nancye Blair Black, ISTEs AI Explorations project lead, who moderated the panel. That kind of support needs to come from many sources, from federal officials down to the state level and individual districts.

We need to be talking about, What is AI? and it needs to be explained, she said. A lot of people think AI is magic, but we just need to understand these tools and their limitations and do more research to get people on board.

With the use of machine learning, AI technologies can adapt to individual students needs in real-time, tracking their progress and providing immediate feedback and data to teachers as well.

In instances where a student may be rushing through answering questions, AI technology can pick up on that and flag the student to slow down, the speakers said. This can provide a level of individual attention that cant be achieved by a teacher whos expected to be looking over every students shoulder simultaneously.

Others see reasons to be wary of AIs potential impact on teaching and learning. Many ed-tech advocates and academic researchers have raised serious concerns that the technology could have a negative impact on students.

One longstanding worry is that the data AI systems rely on can be inaccurate or even discriminatory, and that the algorithms put into AI programs make faulty assumptions about students and their educational interests and potential.

For instance, if AI is used to influence decisions about which lessons or academic programs students have access to, it could end up scuttling students opportunities, rather than enhancing them.

Nneka McGee, executive director for learning and innovation for the South San Antonio ISD, mentioned in the ISTE panel that a lot more research still has to be done on AI, regarding opportunity, data, and ethics.

Some districts that are more affluent will have more funding, so how do we provide opportunities for all students? she said.

We also need to look into the amount of data that is needed and collected for AI to run effectively. Your school will probably need a data- sharing agreement with the companies you work with.

A lot of research needs to be done on AIs data security and accessibility, as well as how to best integrate such technologies across the curriculum not just in STEM-focused courses.

Its important to start getting educators familiar with the AI and how it works, panelists said, because when used effectively, AI can increase student engagement in the classroom, and give teachers more time to customize lessons to individual student needs.

As AI picks up momentum within the education sphere, the speakers said that teachers need to start by learning the fundamentals of the technology and how it can be used in their classrooms.But a big share of the responsibilityalso falls on company officials developing new AI products, Black said.

When asked about advice for ed-tech organizations that are looking to expand into AI capabilities, Black emphasized the need for user-friendliness and an interface that can be seamlessly assimilated into existing curriculum and standards.

Hand [teachers] something they can use right away, not just another thing to pile on what they already have, she said.

McGee, of the South San Antonio ISD,urges companies to include teachers in every part of the process when it comes to pioneering AI.

Involve teachers because theyre on the front lines; theyre the first ones who see our students, she said. It doesnt matter how much we do out here. If the teacher doesnt believe in what youre bringing to the table, it will not be successful.

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VideoVerse was incepted to create exciting content with artificial intelligence technology and to make video editing democratic and accessible. The company's journey began in 2016 when Saket Dandotia, Alok Patil and Vinayak Shrivastav teamed up.

The trio wanted to create a technology that would disrupt the content industry. The solution they came up with was Magnifi, which along with Sytck and Illusto make up the ecosystem of VideoVerse.

"We truly believe that technology should help all content creators maximize their investments by not only telling better stories but also garnering a wider reach, seamless transition and efficient working solutions. We are constantly innovating to best suit consumer needs and industry demands," said Meghna Krishna, CRO, VideoVerse.

The company conducted market surveys and focused research on narrowing down the exact challenges it was solving for. The vision was to build a platform that allowed for accommodations and fine-tuning needed to suit every aspect of the production process as well as client requirements. The company created its platform by harnessing the power of AI and ML. It worked towards ensuring the application was precise and efficient. Sports was the first genre VideoVerse forayed into and the team researched over 30 key sports and parameters that could be meta-tagged to generate bite-sized videos.

"The urgent need for a technology solution to support the post-production processes and the demand for a solution that addressed every specific pain point in scaling content production became clear to us," added Krishna

Krishna believes that startups are the way forward for groundbreaking ideas and technologies to find a place in the enterprise world. There is tremendous scope for innovation and every new solution or idea only helps strengthen the community.

According to Forbes India, video creation and consumption space are growing at 24 per cent per annum and approximately 60 per cent of the internet users in India consume videos online.

Artificial Intelligence was a very new technology during VideoVerse's initial days which made it tougher to convince clients and investors. However, the company has raised $46.8 million in its recent Series B funding.

"There was a lot of ambiguity around the impact of AI and often the change from traditional methods to new age technology faces natural resistance. The challenge on hand was augmenting the existing awareness and educating end-users while ensuring that we had a seamless solution that did not disrupt the workflow," commented Krishna.

Videoverse and its distinct cloud-agnostic products use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to revolutionize how content is refined and consumed. As far as specific stacks go:

For Magnifi, the key technologies used are face and image recognition, vision models, optical character recognition, audio detection and NLP. Styck and Illusto both use full-stack applications (MERN [Mongo, Express, React, Node]).

"Easy access to video editing platforms that offer state-of-the-art, next-generation solutions is the need of the hour. Being cloud-agnostic and powered by AI and ML all our platforms have a great user interface that allows anyone to master the art of video creation. There is a growing need for social-optimized content and our products are geared towards providing that with one-click solutions," added Krishna.

The company's focus is to strengthen the team, further enhance the product features and offer a complete holistic solution to its clients for all their video editing needs. VideoVerse has offices in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and India and is expanding to new markets like Singapore and the Middle East.

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In 2019, guards on the borders of Greece, Hungary, and Latvia began testing an artificial-intelligence-powered lie detector. The system, called iBorderCtrl, analyzed facial movements to attempt to spot signs a person was lying to a border agent. The trial was propelled by nearly $5 million in European Union research funding, and almost 20 years of research at Manchester Metropolitan University, in the UK.

The trial sparked controversy. Polygraphs and other technologies built to detect lies from physical attributes have been widely declared unreliable by psychologists. Soon, errors were reported from iBorderCtrl, too. Media reports indicated that its lie-prediction algorithm didnt work, and the projects own website acknowledged that the technology may imply risks for fundamental human rights.

This month, Silent Talker, a company spun out of Manchester Met that made the technology underlying iBorderCtrl, dissolved. But thats not the end of the story. Lawyers, activists, and lawmakers are pushing for a European Union law to regulate AI, which would ban systems that claim to detect human deception in migrationciting iBorderCtrl as an example of what can go wrong. Former Silent Talker executives could not be reached for comment.

A ban on AI lie detectors at borders is one of thousands of amendments to the AI Act being considered by officials from EU nations and members of the European Parliament. The legislation is intended to protect EU citizens fundamental rights, like the right to live free from discrimination or to declare asylum. It labels some use cases of AI high-risk, some low-risk, and slaps an outright ban on others. Those lobbying to change the AI Act include human rights groups, trade unions, and companies like Google and Microsoft, which want the AI Act to draw a distinction between those who make general-purpose AI systems, and those who deploy them for specific uses.

Last month, advocacy groups including European Digital Rights and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants called for the act to ban the use of AI polygraphs that measure things like eye movement, tone of voice, or facial expression at borders. Statewatch, a civil liberties nonprofit, released an analysis warning that the AI Act as written would allow use of systems like iBorderCtrl, adding to Europes existing publicly funded border AI ecosystem. The analysis calculated that over the past two decades, roughly half of the 341 million ($356 million) in funding for use of AI at the border, such as profiling migrants, went to private companies.

The use of AI lie detectors on borders effectively creates new immigration policy through technology, says Petra Molnar, associate director of the nonprofit Refugee Law Lab, labeling everyone as suspicious. You have to prove that you are a refugee, and you're assumed to be a liar unless proven otherwise, she says. That logic underpins everything. It underpins AI lie detectors, and it underpins more surveillance and pushback at borders.

Molnar, an immigration lawyer, says people often avoid eye contact with border or migration officials for innocuous reasonssuch as culture, religion, or traumabut doing so is sometimes misread as a signal a person is hiding something. Humans often struggle with cross-cultural communication or speaking to people who experienced trauma, she says, so why would people believe a machine can do better?

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In the high-tech fast-changing world, the nature of work also keeps changing. In the last few decades computers, robots and automation have changed the nature and roles of almost every job. Automation and artificial intelligence are spurring a new revolution, transforming jobs in every industry from IT to manufacturing.

According to some studies, about one fourth of the jobs are at risk of being automated across the globe. This trend sometimes makes people nervous about job security.

Increased adoption and evolution of Automation & Artificial Intelligence brings along skepticism of a large number of roles and skills displacement. Instead, automation and AI should be used to evolve job roles and help make human workers more effective, Arjun Jolly, Principal, Athena Executive Search & Consulting said.

Here are some skills and professions that cant be easily replaced by automation.Jobs involving high levels of human interaction, strategic interpretation, critical decision making, niche skills or subject matter expertise won't be replaced by automation anytime soon. For instance - Lawyers, Leadership roles, Medical Professionals, Healthcare practitioners, IT & HR Professionals. We can automate almost every part of the contract workflow process, but will still continue to rely on human intervention to put arguments, establish social relations in the negotiation phase, and find nuances in the data, rather than relying on data and algorithms outright, Arjun Jolly said.

Human Resource, Customer relationship management: While alexa or siri are great at following your every direction, but they cant really understand how youre feeling. Even the most advanced technology will never be able to comprehend our emotions and respond in the way that a human can. Whether its a team leader helping employees through a difficult time, account managers working with clients, or hiring managers looking for the perfect candidate, you need empathy to get those jobs done.

Roles that involve building relationships with clients, customers or patients can never be replaced by automation.

Automation will continue to take on more operational functions like payroll, filtering of job applications etc. But the human touch will always remain when it comes to HR. Similarly, even in the healthcare sector, automation and technology are playing an important role. But these need to work alongside humans doctors, surgeons, nurses, healthcare workers for diagnosis and treatment, Rupali Kaul, Operational Head-West, Marching Sheep said.

"Besides this, Psychologists, caregivers, most engineers, human resource managers, marketing strategists, and lawyers are some roles that cannot be replaced by AI anytime in the near future, Nilesh Jahagirdar, VP Marketing, [x]cube LABS said.

Strategic, Critical ThinkingAutomation can remove or simplify the process of implementing tasks but it cant provide an overarching strategy that makes each task relevant. Even as the world moves towards digitization and automation, the ability to understand the context and complexities before offering solutions remains irreplaceable.

Automation can help implement tasks but its a long way from providing a strategy that makes each task relevant that fits in the bigger picture. Regardless of industry, roles that require strategic thinking will always be done by humans.

"So, jobs like solutions architect, designers, professionals providing hospitality services, and consultants having the ability to integrate systems and processes, would remain much in demand, IMHO. In essence, skills with the ability to provide superlative customer experiences would be the skills of the future, Ruchika Godha, COO, Advaiya said.

Creativity Most intelligent computers or robot cant paint like Picaso and create music like Mozart. Nobody can explain why some humans are more creative than others. So, its safe to say its near impossible for computers to replicate the spark of creativity that has led to the worlds most amazing feats.

"Automation is programmed and cannot replicate creativity which is spontaneous and requires imagination, dreaming and collective inspiration something humans are best at Rupali Kaul, Operational Head-West, Marching Sheep said.

Nilesh Jahagirdar, VP Marketing, [x]cube LABS said, While digital technologies such as AI/ML are making quite a few routine jobs redundant, there are some which cant quite be replaced owing to the complexities involved and the fact that AI evolution is not just as magical as people think it is. At its current state, its only repetitive tasks that follow the same rules over and over which can be done by AI. Psychologists, caregivers, most engineers, human resource managers, marketing strategists, and lawyers are some roles that cannot be replaced by AI anytime in the near future.

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YEREVAN I met Vladimir Suvorov, the founder of Van Der Bot, at the Armenia Art Fair of Contemporary Art, held in the end of May. What he presented was beyond imagination a contemporary robot artist named Van Der Bot, who creates art. Thinking with artificial intelligence, painting with robohand and interacting as a human, it combines modern technologies with classical artistic tools, making physical works reflecting a current age.

Suvorov is an engineer by profession, a businessman and technology expert, who has patents under his name and articles. He worked for US EMC company (now Dell-EMC) and was a lead researcher in AI lab in Russia. Vladimir, from St. Petersburg, has Armenian roots, who has long wanted to visit Yerevan and now lives with his family here.

Vladimir, it was interesting to see Van Der Bot, and observe how its arm uses oil paints and brushes to turn any photo into a piece of art. But the question is: why?

Actually this is a very common question. There are many people who think of themselves as artists. We even found data that says 38 percent of people think they are artists, but only 1.5 percent of them can paint. So with our robot we want to fill that gap. To be an artist or to start painting you dont need anything, but to show this to your friends and colleagues and get their admiration, you definitely need some skills. Our typical costumer is a businessman, a self-established person. He has a job, a family, everything in his life, but he thinks he wants to create something and to leave a mark in history. But he cannot paint. Of course, he can go to some art classes and study, but that takes lots of time. So he sees in our robot a way to express himself to go into the business with art, gather his friends around that work, use the robot for the education of children. This is something people want to bring into culture. Someone said: you are selling a dream. You are buying a Tesla not because you want the car to go, but to buy something really great. This is the same. Some people say that this cannot be considered art. In that case I remind them about photography. You click the button, and the device gives you a result, which can (or cannot) be a piece of art. We give a picture to our robot, that he turns into a painting. Another field is the music. We hear the music with electronic synthesizer, electronic guitar, and you hear the music from the acoustics, not just from the instrument. This is the technology that comes into the transmission. Can you say that this is not the music that human produced? We do not substitute the human, we give the instrument to the human to express himself, like the art is more about the concept, what you want to express, but not about the skill. You may have a great dream, but not skills to transfer it. So we are just giving an instrument to express his idea. And third example I can bring-the human should distinguish any object or text made by robot versus something done by a human. Here we tested even the painting. We brought professional artists and asked them to draw a triangle. And then the robot drew the same. Many people failed to guess what was painted by a human and what by the robot. Of course the triangle is a simple object, but we can take our painting to other artists and ask if they can draw like this or ask who did that. So it is the context you bring.

Many famous artists have assistants. Do you think your robot can act as painters assistant?

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