My greatest academic regret is not studying history in college, despite being top of my class. I blame it on Nip/Tuck. I was 16 years old and had just a month to choose my A-Levels, similar to American Advanced Placement (AP) courses. I became so fascinated and enamored by the grandeur and drama of the […]
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Artificial intelligence is the process of using computers and machines to mimic human perception, decision making, and other processes to complete a task. In other words, AI is when machines perform high-level pattern matching and learn along the way. The two notable types of AI include the rule-based option and the machine-learning option. The former […]
Your browser does not support the video tag. Break New software uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify and quantify certain types of social behavior in mice from videos of mice interacting in a cage – even animals with cables implanted to monitor their brain activity. The tool, called Mouse Action Recognition System (MARS), could speed […]
Illustration by Laurène Boglio Welcome to this month’s edition of By the Numbers. At Spectrum, we do our best to summarize the latest in autism research. Sometimes the best summary is a chart or map. In this newsletter we bring new research results to the point, which are conveyed most concisely with data visualizations. Let […]
Common and rare variants in or near certain autism-associated genes can have opposite effects on cognition. Likewise, some autistic people carry autism-related variants with opposing effects on levels of intelligence. Two independent teams presented the unpublished results yesterday at the American Society of Human Genetics 2021 conference, which is being held virtually for the second […]
Data collection A data set was formed through structured classroom observations in 20 full-day sessions over 5 months in 2019 at a special school with criteria of ASC for admission in East London. Participants included three teachers (one male, two females), their teaching assistants (all females), and seven children (four males, three females) aged from […]
Angela J. Kim and family Angela J. Kim As artificial intelligence becomes more and more a part of our everyday lives, it is important to consider how this evolving technology will affect the way we educate. It seems that most of the discussions about parenting and AI focus on privacy issues, but there are plenty […]