Hi Douglas Makepeace and Scott MacLeod,
Hope you two have a chance to meet to discuss item below and World University And School...
... thought you might find this online article about China Math exam and AI of interest as well.... when AI passes the tests, they can also help learners, and potentially generate problems to help learners make progress - https://phys.org/news/2017-06-
expect you both know about Curious Learning as well: http://www.curiouslearning.
Sorry I do not have time to engage with either of you these days -- my mother passed away recently, and family matters have consumed me for the rest of 2017...
My work for IBM is focussed on Cognitive Opentech Group (COG) creation: http://service-science.info/
Please let me know if either of you find an open source "Siri" for smart phones - that is what I am looking for!
Thanks, -Jim
Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120
Innovation Champion: http://service-science.info/
Date: 06/09/2017 05:30 PM
Subject: "Miracle goals, no method." W. Edwards Deming, on education
Dear fellow friend of education,
W. Edwards Deming was another friend of education. Back in the 1990s, he put his finger on our unique problem: “Miracle goals, no method.”
Our worst problem is illiteracy. LearnOnMobile offers a solution. Our interactive lessons, for learning to read English, are now available in a mobile app.
Our long-term vision is the creation of a first class basic education, for $10 per student per year.
Please look at our website for the many facts and figures and illustrations: learnonmobile.com. You will surely learn something important, and I hope you will want to join us!
All best wishes, Douglas
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Thank Jim — you were the first to respond, out of 100 Friends of Education to whom I sent my email!
Even more remarkable, your friend Solomon Darwin was the second!! Thanks once again for your introducing me to him. I had dinner with his right hand man in India, during my six weeks in Bangalore last summer. Some good will come of this.
One of my high school classmates was named Scott MacLoud, but he is 70 now. In any event, I’ll reach out to your friend Scott.
On Siri, I will contact three friends who may help.
My Co-Founder and CTO at LearnOnMobile has been a virtuoso programmer for 30 years. He has a keen interest in AI. When the Amazon Echo first came out, he programmed over 75 little applications for it.
Second, you may know Steve Omohundro, a Berkely physics PhD decades ago, who has been focused on AI ever since. Third, my friend Jack Park has been an evangelist for open source software for ages.
Also, a friend knows one of the creators of Siri, and I will explore that avenue. When I have something promising on any of these, I’ll let you know.
Finally, both WorldUniverityandSchool, and CuriousLearning are new to me, and surely worth exploring.
Thanks so much for making my day — and thanks to IBM for giving me such a great first job!!! Douglas
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Thanks Douglas. Glad you and Solomon's folks have connected.
Regarding open source "Siri-like" systems for smartphones...
(1) LearnOnMobile - sounds interesting - https://www.learnonmobile.com/
(2) Steve Omohundro - yes, he might know. I invited him to speak at Almaden, and he gave a great AI talk, and futures talk.
(3) Jack Park and Adam Cheyer are good colleagues. Perhaps SRI has bits and pieces as part of Calo project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Thanks, -Jim
Jim Spohrer, PhD
Director, Cognitive Opentech Group (COG)
IBM Research - Almaden, 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120
Innovation Champion: http://service-science.info/
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Hi Jim, Douglas and Dan,
Thanks for these great resources, and my condolences on the passing of your mother, Jim. (Hi Dan, nice to e-meet you as well).
Your email came at the beginning of CC OCW wiki World University and School's open hour-long monthly business meeting on Saturday at 9am, Jim - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2017/06/june-10-2017-world-univ-and-sch-monthly.html - when I was at a Reed College reunion in Oregon, and during a busy few days (having then visited a friend in central Washington state and then driven a long 15 hour+ trip home yesterday), ... hence my reply now.
To give you an idea of how wiki World University and School works, I've added "Learn on Mobile" to - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language - and http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/English_as_a_Second_Language_for_Kids - where each of these wiki schools/page will be in each of all 7,099 living languages - as - "Learn on Mobile. 2017. [https://www.learnonmobile.com/ Learn on Mobile]. (Our worst problem is illiteracy. LearnOnMobile offers a solution. Our interactive lessons, for learning to read English, are now available in a mobile app). learnonmobile.com." - under "Select References".
And I added "AI gets so-so grade in Chinese university entrance exam" http://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-so-so-grade-chinese-university.html to China World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/China (planned in Mandarin - see https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ - and all other Chinese languages) - as - "AI gets so-so grade in Chinese university entrance exam. 2017. [http://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-so-so-grade-chinese-university.html AI gets so-so grade in Chinese university entrance exam]. June 8. phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-so-so-grade-chinese-university.html".
And I added, Jim, your http://service-science.info/archives/4629 and http://phys.org/news/2017-06-ai-so-so-grade-chinese-university.html to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence but couldn't add this to http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Robotics for some reason today.
World University and School has long planned to approach illiteracy on our open wiki schools' side with voice recognition / AI and even anticipating developments with Google group video Hangouts, Google Neural Machine Translation and TensorFlow in Google's ecosystem. (WUaS is like Wikipedia in its 358 languages, planning as wiki schools in all 7,099 languages, with CC MIT OCW in its 7 languages, planning major online universities and high schools on CC MIT OCW in all ~200 countries' official languages).
Illiterate individuals could teach to their web camera (e.g. illiterate farmers could teach about farming practices in eastern Ghana to others in western Ghana in their language on their cell phones or agricultural market anomalies), - also mitigating the need for language learning. This is one plan for WUaS, I hope this will emerge as WUaS begins to develop in Wikidata / Mediawiki (which are Wikipedia's database/front end in 358 languages) - and to which WUaS donated WUaS in October 2015 and in which WUaS should begin to develop soon. The depth of wiki-experience that Wikimedia communities and perhaps WUaS could bring could enhance this school and language learning conversation/resources
And WUaS has long been planning language learning for each of all 7,099 living languages (per Ethnologue) on smartphones and partly as wiki schools. (Wikipedia again is in 358 languages and Google Translate / GNMT is in at least than 100 languages). WUaS is also planning a universal translator building on GNMT conceptually - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator. Cognitive systems / assistants could/would become central here too. An universal translator in Google Voice/Android and Siri/iPhone combined could also help with language learning questions (all of which WUaS will also study academically and rrigorously as an online multi-lingual university).
I would love too to learn of an open source "Siri" and glad to have found this open source Android resources - https://source.android.com/. It seems to me that these are the two open source platforms to develop in for voice especially. Others?
I think where WUaS might be able to contribute here to "Learn on Mobile" is as a platform, but WUaS is planning free and open resources only, and re potential collaborations so perhaps a collaboration would work better here.
In CC MIT OCW-centric CC WUaS's focus on university and high school education - and seeking highest achievers in all countries' official languages - it's great too to see this new MIT course emerging online for MIT students - http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-pilots-full-credit-online-residential-course-0612 . It would be great to explore collaboration in these regards as well (where WUaS plans to hire graduate students from great universities in multiple languages who are becoming faculty to teach to the MIT OCW faculty in 7 languages in video, and who will potentially become coders as well). Some WUaS students will need to learn English, but WUAS will also seek to facilitate language learning on mobile in countries' official languages. Is a collaboration possible here too?
Thanks for your fascinating learnonmobile.com resource in these regards especially. I look forward to developing this conversation further. Can we meet for lunch in the SF Bay Area about this sometime in the near future, Douglas and Dan?
All best wishes,
Scott
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Found this on Rebecca MacKinnon's Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/rmack):
Jeff Bezos: "Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods." Alexa: "Sure, Jeff. Buying Whole Foods now." Jeff Bezos: "WHA- ahh go ahead."
Jeff Bezos: "Alexa, buy me something from Whole Foods."— JESAL (@JesalTV) June 16, 2017
Alexa: "Sure, Jeff. Buying Whole Foods now."
Jeff Bezos: "WHA- ahh go ahead." pic.twitter.com/GuJ2jlAiuU
https://twitter.com/JesalTV/status/875705460313255936
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In what ways could WUaS best reach all 7 billion people in the world with free highest quality smartphone wiki education in each of all 7,099 living languages?
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