To its 5,000 salesmen across the U.S., Grolier Inc., publisher of America’s oldest encyclopedia, last week handed out an odd-looking new product to sell door to door. A green, windowed, sheet-metal ...

One of Audrey Watters’s observations in her deeply researched Teaching Machines is that ed-tech evangelists seldom make an effort to learn the history of educational technologies. For those ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Benjamin Wolff covers leadership insights from the world of the arts. Are robots coming for us and our work? The dystopian answer ...

It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human. "You can't actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to ...

Can machines replace teachers? Probably not. But if they can help teachers to teach, and do it effectively, they may at least help solve the teacher shortage. The teaching machines’ stoutest advocates ...

From industrial robots to self-driving cars, engineers face a common problem: keeping machines steady and predictable. When systems move, they can spiral out of control unless designed with ...

Great documentation is important for humans, but more so for machines. The concept of ‘tiered documentation’ means that both developers and LLMs get what they need. As important as code is, ...

From the 1920s American psychologists experimented with teaching using machines. Inspired, in part, by the expansion of schooling, especially at the secondary level; the success of paper-and-pencil ...