At least 13 years are spent in class. It is compulsory to go to school until the age of 16, or, what is the same, the end of ESO. And, from then on, the possibilities of attending classes are endless, baccalaureate, a career, master’s degree, specialization or recycling course, etc…

How many times, in all that time, have we heard our parents say “Come on, school” and our immediate response has been to snort. I’m sure it’s hard to count them. And, afterward, once in class there were so many things to discuss with friends that sometimes the time between class and class fell short, and while the teacher explained, perhaps the attention was diverted a little. Or simply, it was our mind that evaded, without which we could avoid it. Who has not ever happened?

Identify the emotions of the student through AI
However, with the arrival of Artificial Intelligence, this can change, since in the institute number 11 of Hangzhou have installed an intelligent facial recognition system that every 30 seconds scans and analyzes the face of the students to check their level of attention during the classes. Even the system is able to identify if they are happy, angry, scared, confused or upset, and so keen that it comes to detect if students are writing, reading, if they raise their hands or if they have fallen asleep on their desk.

It is true that the latter know how to detect it well teachers without the need of Artificial Intelligence. Surely more than one embarrassment has occurred in class when a partner has suddenly woken up with the teacher’s stare with a frown and the laughs of the rest of the background.

But with AI, all this information that is collected on the attention or not provided by students can represent a big change in the educational programming of the school year or assess whether changes are introduced in the current teaching methods to get students to learn more efficiently and feel more motivated and participatory during the classes.

Andalusia, Extremadura and the Canary Islands; the communities with more ‘ninis’
In UK, school absenteeism continues to be a big problem. In fact, the term ‘nini’ is still used, which refers to young people between 15 and 35 years of age who neither study nor work. Last year’s data for 2017 is overwhelming, according to official data from the Ministry of Education – Custom Essays: the three communities with the highest percentage of ‘ninis’ are Andalucía (26.6%), Extremadura (23.9%) and Canarias (21, 1%); while in the opposite extreme are País Vasco (11.8%) and Aragón (13.2%).

Therefore, a change in class dynamics could control this problem and perhaps increase the chances of improving the interest of young people to attend school and to learn, which can lead to what, perhaps, when they hear the words “to school”. “, Do not resplen and even draw a smile on your face.

What technology cannot achieve …

Amazing artificial intelligence solutions

Artificial intelligence diagnoses diseases produce artistic content, detects failures and faults, locates planets, and even helps you find your next job. But it also creates names for beers, stuffs uncomfortable silences in conversations, or invents gods.

We are no longer talking about artificial intelligence (AI) being one of the 2019 trends, but we are advancing the different applications that it will have. By 2019, in particular, it is expected that more and more companies of all sizes embrace artificial intelligence in any of its variants, but also our own houses, where more and more objects will interact with us through conversational interfaces.

Artificial intelligence has come to make us intelligent natives (humans …) a little smarter, or at least more efficient. Thus, this past 2017 we have seen AI solutions that have helped us to fight depression and detect diseases; to drive boats, cars, and other means of transportation; to direct traffic in cities, to compose musical or literary pieces; to talk with us and solve doubts, or detect faults even before they occur in the most diverse facilities and machinery (from trains to nuclear power plants).

The Cold War of the 21st century

In fact, such is the range of applications that artificial intelligence presents in any field, that many countries have focused their particular Cold War of the 21st century on the development of this technology. China and Russia, for example, have turned it into a matter of state, competing openly against the United States.

This advance in terms of which countries could have consequences, however, in the political life of both these countries and the rest of the states on the international scene, and that is already creating large databases, provided by intelligent systems, that allow to control certain sectors of society, or even alert the authorities whenever a certain word is mentioned in a conversation, as is already happening in China . Security? Censorship?

Amazing AI solutions

This alarm that comes up to the Chinese police every time a certain word comes up in a conversation is just one of the solutions developed with artificial intelligence that we can find. It looks like a movie from James Bond, or from an episode of Black Mirror, and yet it is not the most striking application we will see. Along with the solutions that will make life easier, most frikis are also emerging. Then, we leave 8 of the most striking AIs we have seen in recent months:

The chatbot of the last days: when a person is ready to die, who does he need to contact and trust? A parish priest? A lawyer? That family member with whom one does not speak and with whom one wants to reconcile? In any case, and from now on, maybe with whom we communicate when we have little time in this life is with a chatbot. Thus, the organization of the funeral, the last wills, or even the spiritual concerns could be resolved thanks to the bot created at Northeastern University (Essay Mafia – Boston, USA). This chatbot allows the user to express their concerns about the end of life without anyone judging them, according to the creators.

The chatbot that fills the awkward silences: We continue with chatbots, and this one (created for Facebook) we would love to have it in Tinder and those first moments of conversation What-so-well-and-you-well. By introducing tastes and characteristics to the bot, the researchers intend to give them personality, which would create greater engagement with users.

The personal assistant that laughs at you: Alice is Russian, and it ‘s a little edge. This personal assistant has been developed with fragments of conversations available on the Internet, articles, and even Russian literature. This cocktail has resulted in a Siri-style personal assistant, but much more ironic, acidic, and politically incorrect. And this the Russians seem to love since Alice serves 1.5 million active users every day. Of course, its creators have confessed that they must be alert so that their sense of humor does not go from brown to dark and end up saying the same nonsense that Tay said.

The Church of the Artificial Intelligence of the Last Days: for the programmer Anthony Levandowski it is very probable that artificial intelligence becomes a God. Way of the Future is the religious association that Levandowski has founded, and whose goal is to “develop and promote a deity based on artificial intelligence that contributes to the construction of a better society”. And he is not alone; Technologists like Ray Kurzweil or Vince Lynch follow him in his approach. It seems that soon the legends of classical mythology could be played around a whole myriad of AI gods specialized in different virtues, as once happened with Athena, Poseidon, or Eros.

Baratobarate, the chatbot that helps you a bargain: haggling is a natural talent; either you’re good at it, or you’re hesitant to propose another price, and you end up accepting the deal. But to the chatbots, this will come out automatically. Some virtual assistants developed by Facebook could be entrusted very soon in your name to deal with commercials and book the next vacation, make that important purchase (like a house) or insurance. But they will do it by bargaining, looking for the most beneficial agreement for you. Would you trust a bot to bargain for the price of your home?

The most animal facial recognition: facial recognition at this point of the film is no longer a novelty. Numerous models of mobile phones incorporate it into their technology as a way, for example, of unlocking the terminal. But now cows can also be recognized facially. A new system based on artificial intelligence, developed by a company in the agricultural sector and another one of “machine-vision”, will recognize cattle in a few seconds, almost better than the farmer himself.