We all know we act differently when somebody’s watching; even more so when somebody calls us out. But what about the effect on our behaviour when the supervisor is non-human – yet still a peer? Perhaps it’s the perceived impartiality of robots that makes us take another look at our own actions. This study from…
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We all know that artificial intelligence is getting more developed every day. Increasingly, robots can think, and maybe even argue, for themselves. However, physicist Arthur Miller believes today’s technology might be more advanced than we think. Not only that, but art, previously thought the preserve of humans, might be in robots’ toolbox too. We’ve looked…
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We’re excited to bring you this piece on robot-learning on WIRED. It cites Alison Gopnik, a UC Berkeley professor and one of iOi’s champions. She delivered our inaugural lecture and spoke about child development. Here her work is taken a step further into applying those methods of child development to robots. Robots, who are by…
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And now for something completely meta. We’ve just about got used to the idea of AI understanding, learning – possibly even creating – but actually forming opinions? To go one further, here a robot debates the case for robots. Against itself. As this article from NewScientist asserts, the AI still relied on human inputs. However, the…
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Last week we brought you a paper and original introduction from Dr Naomi Thompson on the potential of storytelling for teaching about youth work. This article expands that theory into STEM teaching. The key for us is in making the content relatable and fostering an emotional connection. We love how that’s explored here in terms…
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As artificial intelligence and automation innovates, so, it seems, should we. Exercising creative skills allows us to bring to the table what only we can in terms of abstract, free, untaught thinking. This endorsement from the tech industry places much-welcome value on alternative methods of learning and arts education. uniquely human skills John Fallon, Pearson…
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Next up in our exploration of this BBC series is ‘Robots‘. It’s the revolution on everyone’s minds, and believed to be a somewhat inevitable part of our future. However, perhaps more so than with any of the other inventions we’ve learned about, robots’ long history might surprise you. Since ancient times humans have been fascinated…
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At the beginning of August we opened our London-based Mega Maker Lab, a summer experience centred around invention, ideas and play for children and their families. The framework for the project was a collaboration between our Institute of Imagination team, our Imagination Architects and our partners, MATT+FIONA. The Imagination Architects are made up of school…
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Here’s an interesting way of looking at a seemingly simple phenomenon which could be used to revolutionise the way we draw. If architects can use robots to understand the complex kinetics involved in creating the organic circles that humans do, it could have an impact on how they create inspiring spaces. “Movement was always an…
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“BIM Incubator brings together participants from disparate fields of knowledge to think collaboratively about blackness and black culture in relation to architecture”. We love the idea of “scrambling” this architectural, technical acronym to provoke thought and self-expression in new ways as part of Black Imagination Matters. On a humid, grey morning at Princeton in a…
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