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Artificial intelligence is influencing the future of virtuallyevery industry and every human being. It has acted as the main driver ofemerging technologies like big data, robotics, and IoT, and it will continue toact as a technological innovator for the near future.

According to tech experts, artificial intelligence(AI) has the potential to transform the world. However, those same experts donot agree on what kind of effect that transformation will have on the averageperson. Some believe that humans will be much better off in the hands ofadvanced AI systems, while others think it will lead to our inevitable downfall.

Artificial intelligence is software built to learnor problem solve processes typically performed in the human brain. Today,medical researchers are using AI to develop technology that will detect a rangeof diseases, improve radiology imaging, fine-tune radiation treatments,simplify DNA sequencing, and advance precision medicine for more individualizedhealth care.

In the coming years, progress in artificialintelligence (AI) will yield practical clinical tools. Mental health providerswill then use to plan tailored treatment of common psychiatric disorders suchas ADHD, PTSD, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, Alzheimersdisease, and others.

These days, content is complicated. The role of AIto augment knowledge, skills, strategies, and tactics may be a powerful formulato transform yesterdays teacher into tomorrows informed mentor. One of thegreatest challenges concerning education is that people learn differently andat different rates. Students go through the education system with differinglevels of learning ability and aptitude. Some are more adept at left brainthinking with skills for analytical thought, while others are more skilled atright-brain thinking with creative, literary, and communicative ability.

Through the power of machine learning-basedhyper-personalization, AI systems are being used to develop a custom learningprofile of each student. It customizes the training materials for each studentbased on their ability, preferred mode of learning, and experience. Rather thanrequiring teachers to create a single curriculum for all students, educatorswill have augmented intelligence assistance that provides a wide range ofmaterials leveraging the same core curriculum, but cater to the specific needsof each student.

These autonomous conversational agents can answerquestions from students, provide assistance with learning or assignment tasks,and reinforce concepts with additional materials that can help reinforce thecurriculum. These intelligent assistants are also enhancing adaptive learningfeatures so that each of the students can learn at their own pace or timeframes. Something theMicrosoftEducation communityis striving to achieve globally.

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Learning is, therefore, getting paperless with time and soonthere will be less or no use of hard copy textbooks for learning. AI systemsalso have an online interactive interface that aids in feedback from thestudents to their professors for follow up purposes in areas where they mightbe struggling or have not yet fully grasped.

Voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Home,Apple Siri, andMicrosoftCortanaare givingstudents a chance to interact with educational material without the interactionof the teacher. These devices can be used at home or similar non-educationalenvironment to provide conversational interaction with teaching material andadditional educational assistance.

On the higher education side, college admissionsofficials are considering using AI systems to improve the fairness and qualityof the admissions process. AI systems that are trained in a way that eliminatesmuch of the human bias are starting to be used to provide a credible and fairadmission using given criteria when compared to humans.

In the final analysis, we are all students andteachers. This unique reciprocal combination can benefit from AI. From theclassroom to the boardroom to the operating room, our ability to learn, unlearnand relearn that will empower us all to drive real change and embrace thefuture.

Theilliterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, butthose who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

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