What do real workers want from AI? And how does that differ from what AI experts think? Let’s explore an insightful study recently published by Stanford University Social and Language Technologies Lab, “Future of Work with AI Agents.” Drawing on over 2,100 tasks across 104 occupations, the research compares how workers and AI experts think about automation (what AI should do on its own) and augmentation (where AI should collaborate with humans). Two groups were surveyed: 1,500 domain workers —…
Does Social Networking Impair Learning?
Source: PBCentral It is not only an interesting question for those who run rampant in the streams of the social web, it’s an intellectual voyage that unravels answers that just may hit home. According to a Stanford study, multitaskers are “suckers for irrelevancy” according to communication Professor Clifford Nass, one of the researchers whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Everything distracts them.” A group of Stanford researches found,…
