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Benefits of applying artificial intelligence to education
RTIFICIAL Intelligence has the potential to greatly
improve and change education systems across the
world. There is a strong possibility for artificial intelligence
to be used to help teachers effectively streamline their
instruction process and to help students receive more
personalised help that is specifically suited to their
strengths and weaknesses.
Dataconomy.com says ideally, AI will also help to
complete some of the more menial tasks that teachers and
teaching assistants have to work on, freeing them up to
spend even more time helping students.
There has been a lot of progress in this field in the past
few years, as more and more companies have been involved
in projects that aim to augment, improve, and change the
way teaching is done. The field of education is definitely
ripe for innovation, and the advancement of artificial
intelligence may be able to provide that innovation.
The right applications of AI can result in students having
a vastly more detailed and substantial education, as AI
programme can do way more to identify and target their
individual strengths and weaknesses, and teachers can be
aided by AI in order to have a larger amount of impactful
teaching time with their students.
Overall, education systems all over the world stand to
greatly benefit from the proper integration of artificial
intelligence in their schools. teaching from AI and then their teachers will be able to
step in to provide more help once the AI has done the basic
teaching and identified which concepts they struggle with
and which ones they understand just fine.
Personalised education with AI
AI can provide a lot of benefits in the way that it has the
potential to help schools personalise education for their
students. There are many companies currently exploring
the possibilities of AI being used to help tutor students.
Companies such as Carnegie Learning , Thinkster
Math and Socratic are pioneering in this field, as they
have developed services designed to help tutor students
with their homework as well as the areas of math that
they struggle with. The benefit to this type of service is
that it allows students to get something closer to a one-
on-one teaching experience that is able to identify their
strengths and weaknesses in a low pressure and convenient
environment.
It is simply not feasible for a teacher to be able to provide
this level of deep personalised teaching to each student, but
with more advanced AI programmes, schools will be able
to provide their students with that type of personalised AI could be used to grade students’ work
AI can also do a great deal to help the education system
by aiding teachers with some of their more menial tasks.
Currently, teachers have to take a pretty solid chunk of
time out of their days in order to grade assignments, tests
and papers, as well as do other sorts of basic book-keeping.
With the proper implementation, an AI system could
eventually be able to step in and take care of this sort of
work.
Automating a solid amount of a teacher’s more menial
tasks would open up a substantial portion of their schedule,
allowing them to focus on more significant quality time with
students and give them more time to focus on their lesson
plans and on the statuses of each of their students. This
would all be great for the students’ education because they
would have more quality time to spend being personally
instructed by their teacher.
Ultimately, there is a fantastic amount of good things that
AI can do for education systems if properly implemented.
Numerous companies are working on exciting AI
programmes that are positioned to add a great deal to
the educational experience for both teachers and their
students.
AI programmes can be integrated into schools in order to
help students study their coursework at all times, as well as
identify which mathematical concepts they are struggling
with and provide them with extra support in order to better
understand the points that they are struggling with. There
are also exciting possibilities in terms of AI programmes
being able to automate the more menial tasks that teachers
currently handle manually.
The automation of these tasks would open up a great
deal of time for teachers to spend on more valuable parts
of the educational experience. Overall, artificial intelligence
can greatly improve education systems through its ability
to streamline many parts of a teacher’s job, and automate
other parts, ultimately giving them more and more time
to spend directly on their students.
#Takeaway
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Botnet
botnet is a group of computers that are controlled from a
single source and run related software programmes and
scripts. While botnets can be used for distributed computing
purposes, such as a scientific processing, the term usually
refers to multiple computers that have been infected with
malicious software, www.techterms.com says.
In order to create a malicious botnet, a hacker must
first compromise several computers. This may be done by
exploiting a security hole through a Web browser, IRC chat
programme, or a computer’s operating system.
For example, if a user has turned off the default firewall
settings, his or her computer may be susceptible to such
a botnet attack.
Once the hacker has gained access to several computers,
he can run automated programmes or “bots” on all the
systems at the same time.
A hacker may create a botnet for several different
purposes, such as spreading viruses, sending e-mail spam,
or crashing Web servers using a denial of service attack.
Botnets can range from only a few computers to several
thousand machines. While large botnets can cause the
most damage, they are also easiest to locate and break
apart. The unusual amount of bandwidth used by large
botnets may trigger an alert at one or more Internet
Service Providers, which might lead to the discovery and
dismantling of the botnet.
In most situations, users do not know that their
computers have become part of a botnet. This is because
hackers typically hide their intrusion by masking the
activity within regular processes, similar to a rootkit
attack.
Therefore, it is a good idea to install antivirus or anti-
malware software that regularly checks for such intrusions
on your computer. It is also wise to make sure your system
firewall is turned on, which is usually the default setting.