CALI 2012 Keynote on automation, AI and education technology

1. Audrey Watters
2012 CALI Conference

2. Three Laws of Robotics

3. Robots in the Classroom

16. Three Laws of Robotics

17. Three Laws of Robotics
1.
A robot may not injure a human
being, or through inaction, allow
a human being to come to harm.

18. Three Laws of Robotics
2.
A robot must obey the orders
given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would
conflict with the First Law.

19. Three Laws of Robotics
3.
A robot must protect its own
existence as long as such
protection does not conflict
with the First and Second Laws.

20. Three Laws of Robotics
0.
A robot may not harm humanity,
or by inaction, allow humanity to
come to harm.

21. Three Laws of Robotics

22. Three Laws of Robotics
Ethics
Automation
Labor
Learning

23. Three Laws of Robotics
Ethics
Automation
Labor
Learning

24. Three Laws of Robotics
Ethics
Automation
Labor
Learning

25. Three Laws of Robotics
Ethics
Automation
Labor
Learning

26. Literature Review
(Culture)

28. Science and...
The Sacred
The Profane
The Creation of Life
The Creation of
Artificial Intelligence
A Desire for
Control

29. What does it mean to be human?

30. Robot as...
Machine
Worker
Serf

31. Efficiency
Labor
Bodies
Gender

32. Evil

33. Emotion

34. Control

35. Also starring Pam Grier
as a robot teacher.

37. “Whoa. I know Ju Jitsu”
-- Keanu Reeves, The Matrix

38. Literature Review
(Science)

40. Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language
Processing
Machine Learning

41. Can a machine think?
(See: Eliza)

42. CAPTCHA
And just so you don’t think I’ve forgotten about the
education angle here, FYI: the CAPTCHA inventor’s
latest startup is, you guessed it, an ed-tech one:
Duolingo http://duolingo.com

47. Intelligent Tutoring
Adaptive Learning

48. Robot Essay Graders

49. “This study compared the results from nine
automated essay scoring engines on eight
essay scoring prompts drawn from six states that
annually administer high-stakes writing
assessments...
Overall, automated essay scoring was capable of
producing scores similar to human scores for
extended-response writing items with equal
performance for both source-based and traditional
writing genre.”
Mark Shermis, University of Akron
Ben Hamner, Kaggle

50. “The demonstration showed
conclusively that automated essay
scoring systems are fast, accurate, and
cost effective.”
Tom Vander Ark, investor

51. Efficiency

52. “If computers can read like people it's
because we have trained people to
read like computers.”
Alex Reid, University at Buffalo

53. Programming a Robot
v.
Programming a Human

56. “The human brain must be made to conform to the
much more advanced brain of the machine. And
education will no longer be an unpredictable and
exciting adventure in human enlightenment but an
exercise in conformity and an apprenticeship to
whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world.”
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1964)

57. Ethics and the
Automation of Education

58. Three Laws of Robotics
0.
A robot may not harm humanity,
or by inaction, allow humanity to
come to harm.

59. Three Laws of Robotics
0.
A robot may not harm humanity,
or by inaction, allow humanity to
come to harm.

61. Addenda:
Uncanny Valley

63. via Latitude Research

66. Audrey Watters
@audreywatters
hackeducation.com

67. Credits
Isaac Asimov
Star Trek
Jeopardy Kin Lane
Steve Hargadon The New York Times
The Matrix The Awl
Frankenstein (the movie) The Wall Street Journal
Frankenstein (the novel) CNET
Latitude Research O’Reilly Radar
The Jetsons Copy & Paste
Robot, Robot, and Hwang Digital Digs
R.U.R. TIME
Blade Runner George Siemens
I, Robot (the movie) Class of 1999
I, Robot (the short story collection) Wired
Metropolis MSNBC
Terminator University of Akron
Kindergarten Cop The Hewlett Foundation
Stanford University Robocop
Coursera Wikipedia
Udacity Kaggle
Singularity Hub The Atlantic
The Technological Society Google
Ripley’s Believe It Or Not The Simpsons
Star Wars Luis von Ahm
Maker Faire Robert Ambrogi’s Law Site
HG Wells