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Should we be concerned about 'divergent AI language' that humans can't understand?

Teaching computers to understand casual, contextual conversation in every language and accent is key to this quest to normalise our interactions with computers and to place Google even more squarely at the centre of our lives.

"The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"-metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them."

BM's Watson Artificial Intelligence System is capable of searching across vast repositories of unstructured data and returning answers to natural language queries, but it won't replace humans. Instead, the system will augment humans and help us to make better decisions.

" interesting link showing importance of setting up protocal for audio conferencing atec in CoPs and VTs"

Google is implementing voice activated natural language processing technology - already available across Google products like Android and Search - to all Google Analytics users over the next few weeks.

Google Sheets is getting smarter. After adding the machine learning-powered "Explore" feature last year, which lets you ask natural language questions about your data, it's now expanding this feature to also automatically build charts for you. This means you can now simply ask Sheets to give you a "bar chart for fidget spinner sales" and it will automatically build one for you.

Gavin, KIN has had conversations in the past about knowledge transfer with the Technology Strategy Board . They seem to be predominantly about facilitating commerce between universities and industry. They don't seem to be interested in the subtleties of communities of practice, or the behavioral aspects of collaboration. We seemed to be talking different languages. Maybe we haven't engaged with the right people yet!

Video from a series of events at British Council looking at 'How we learn' this video is one session where Sam Conniff looks at the difference in the world of learning and education. He talks about the 'sharing economy' bring the largest growing market in the works and then changes technology is having on what we teach in schools worldwide, including the fact that 70% of all on-one content is video, making the creation of content closer to the user. Highlighting the top things people learning on-line using the search 'how to...' Play in instrument, learn a language and write code.Sam also explores the notion of 'Learning how to learn', 'being connected to the internet everywhere', & 'transparency' and how these will change Education & how we will need to interact in a more ethical way (26:40 - 43:00)