Posted on 05/27/2017 3:37:42 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
With the temptation of social media and no professor around to scold you, it can be easy to get distracted while taking an online class.
Now, one school in Paris is making efforts to keep remote students on track with their tasks – an AI will monitor their every move.
Starting in September, two online classes from the ESG business school will be using a facial recognition program called Nestor to measure students’ engagement, and it will even give them warnings when they start to slack off.
The technology was recently demonstrated at the United Nations in New York, according to the Verge.
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Nestor, a software from LCA Learning, tracks eye movements and facial expressions using the computer’s webcam, and analyzes these features to assess the student’s engagement, valence, and attention.
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https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/26/15679806/ai-education-facial-recognition-nestor-france
HAL the Headmaster.
Give them a shock.
Shock collars to worn by everybody. (except the Clinton and Zuckerberg types)
It’s for the common good.
Artificial insemination????
Face Recognition?
Will this then detect when the person infront of the computer is not the person signed up for the course?
From what I hear it is quite common for one person to pay others to take a class while the person who pays gets the credit and the person who is paid gets the knowledge.
Giving a computer program control over humans is always a dumb idea.
Students will soon learn how to fool the system, since it is artificial, but not intelligent.
What the hell is a student’s valence? Are we talking elements or humans??
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