Comment Could you...? (Score 2) 21
Could you install Linux on this new box?
Submission + - Code.org Rebrands as CodeAI, Solidifying its Shift to AI Education
theodp writes: The rise of AI has been changing the focus of Code.org for the past two years. And on Tuesday, GeekWire reported the tech-backed K-12 CS education nonprofit fully acknowledged the shift and rebranded as CodeAI.
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi — who handed off his Code.org CEO role earlier this year citing the upending of CS by AI and recently revealed to 60 Minutes and USA Today that he has for the past two years been the CEO of stealth piano school startup Payam Music, which he plans to expand nationally "leveraging my experience scaling CodeAI to 100 million students" — explained the rebranding in a LinkedIn post:
"Code.org is changing its name. 13 years ago, Code.org launched with a simple idea: every student should learn computer science — to learn how technology works and how to create it — not just how to use it. After more than 2 billion hours of learning and 190 countries later, the focus of computer science has moved from coding to AI. The technology has changed and so has students needs. AI is reshaping every sector and every part of daily life. The question isn't whether students will live in an AI world — they already do. It's whether they can understand it well enough to navigate it."
"Today, Code.org enters its next chapter as CodeAI [TM]. The mission — every student, every classroom, regardless of zip code — needs a broader vision. They need digital fluency: the ability to understand AI, direct it, question it, and create with it — built on the foundations of computer science, AI science, and data science. We have the curriculum, the teacher training, the frameworks, and the research to do this at scale. AI Discoveries and AI Foundations are free and in classrooms now. The K-12 digital sciences pathway is expanding. The goal is a generation with agency over the systems shaping their lives — prepared to shape the work, civic life, relationships, and meaning that come after. Welcome to CodeAI."
Code.org founder Hadi Partovi — who handed off his Code.org CEO role earlier this year citing the upending of CS by AI and recently revealed to 60 Minutes and USA Today that he has for the past two years been the CEO of stealth piano school startup Payam Music, which he plans to expand nationally "leveraging my experience scaling CodeAI to 100 million students" — explained the rebranding in a LinkedIn post:
"Code.org is changing its name. 13 years ago, Code.org launched with a simple idea: every student should learn computer science — to learn how technology works and how to create it — not just how to use it. After more than 2 billion hours of learning and 190 countries later, the focus of computer science has moved from coding to AI. The technology has changed and so has students needs. AI is reshaping every sector and every part of daily life. The question isn't whether students will live in an AI world — they already do. It's whether they can understand it well enough to navigate it."
"Today, Code.org enters its next chapter as CodeAI [TM]. The mission — every student, every classroom, regardless of zip code — needs a broader vision. They need digital fluency: the ability to understand AI, direct it, question it, and create with it — built on the foundations of computer science, AI science, and data science. We have the curriculum, the teacher training, the frameworks, and the research to do this at scale. AI Discoveries and AI Foundations are free and in classrooms now. The K-12 digital sciences pathway is expanding. The goal is a generation with agency over the systems shaping their lives — prepared to shape the work, civic life, relationships, and meaning that come after. Welcome to CodeAI."
Comment Re:Welcome (Score 1) 112
user-replaceable batteries should be much simpler to replace, not advance phone surgery
I for one, do not want my iPhone to become as thick as my old time Motorola flip phone that had replaceable battery....
I run my phones for at least 6 years it seems....before I upgrade and toss the old one, or keep it as a camera for some use....but no, with they way phones are and how long battery life currently is, etc....I don't need user replaceable with all the negatives that brings with it...
Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 71
If you are upset about LGBT+, well, do you feel that men should be able to have their own preference in women who are blondes, brunettes, redheads, shorter, taller, different body types? How about women having the right to prefer men with a different build, skin tone, etc, are you against THAT? So, people should also have their own preference when it comes to sexuality, like it or not, it's the same exact thing, personal preference in who they are attracted to. Or, do you feel that everyone should have the exact same preferences?
I don't care what your preferred form of sexual friction is....
I just don't want it being flaunted and taught to grade schoolers...they aren't sexual, they don't need to know about boys sucking cocks...
I may not agree with it, but it is a free country and fuck who you want to fuck as an adult, plain and simple.
I don't, however, need to feel forced to play someone else's "games" with pronouns. You can pretend to be a woman or man or poodle, fine with me, but don't expect me to learn or respect the rules of what your pronoun are.....if you are going to be at the fringes of society, it's up to YOU to deal with it, not me.
A big part of "woke" is having to deal with stupid shit like I mentioned above.
Especially exposing kids to it....keep them out of it and allow innocence to survive as long as it can with them.
Submission + - Maryland Governor Signs K-12 AI Bill Under Microsoft's Watchful Eye
theodp writes: "Thank you, Gov. Wes Moore, for signing SB 720 into law yesterday!" exclaimed Microsoft Sr. Director of Education and Workforce Policy Allyson Knox in a LinkedIn post celebrating the passage of the Artificial Intelligence Ready Schools Act. "Microsoft was proud to support this legislation, and I was honored to represent the company at yesterday’s bill signing at the Maryland State House. This law accomplishes the following: 1) Establishes statewide AI guidance for schools ... 2) Requires every district to have an AI plan ... 3) Builds teacher capacity and professional learning ... 4) Promotes AI literacy for students ... 5) Creates tools to evaluate AI technologies ... 6) Establishes a statewide AI Education Collaborative." At the same bill-signing ceremony, Gov. Moore paradoxically also signed into law the Phone-Free Schools Act, "prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day."
Knox reports up to Microsoft President Brad Smith, who last July told Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi it was time for the tech-backed K-12 CS education nonprofit to "switch hats" from coding to AI as Microsoft announced its new $4 billion Microsoft Elevate initiative to advance AI education. The Maryland State Department of Education is one of many government agencies that are participating in Code.org's Microsoft-advised TeachAI initiative. Code.org also took to social media to celebrate the Maryland win, proclaiming that "Maryland just made AI and CS Education the law."
Interestingly, Maryland's commitment to K-12 AI comes in the same week as the NY Times reports a $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school. AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy," Weingarten said.
Knox reports up to Microsoft President Brad Smith, who last July told Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi it was time for the tech-backed K-12 CS education nonprofit to "switch hats" from coding to AI as Microsoft announced its new $4 billion Microsoft Elevate initiative to advance AI education. The Maryland State Department of Education is one of many government agencies that are participating in Code.org's Microsoft-advised TeachAI initiative. Code.org also took to social media to celebrate the Maryland win, proclaiming that "Maryland just made AI and CS Education the law."
Interestingly, Maryland's commitment to K-12 AI comes in the same week as the NY Times reports a $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school. AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy," Weingarten said.
Comment Re:Good (Score -1, Troll) 71
They'll make a deal with the king to promote more non woke content.
Well, at least that would still be some progress....
Submission + - Teachers' Union Urges Schools to Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time
theodp writes: The New York Times reports the $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school.
The union’s effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children’s groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their AI products in schools.
This week, AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. “We’re being transparent,” Weingarten said, adding that "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy."
The union’s effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children’s groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their AI products in schools.
This week, AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. “We’re being transparent,” Weingarten said, adding that "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy."
Comment I'm sorry Dave... (Score 1) 36
...I'm afraid I can't do that trade.
Comment Re:Meta has an AI? (Score 1) 52
With the growing ability to run local models at home on your own hardware, especially if you have Apple Silicon computers....I'm wondering if soon we'll see a LARGE drop in subscriptions to the Frontier models?
From what I'm seeing these local models can do what about 98% of the populace needs....and you aren't sharing your data with a corporation that is just sucking up all your data into their AI?
Comment Re:Life? (Score 1) 197
It's not because you were born different than me. Your body adapts to however you eat. It responds well to your typical diet because that's what it's used to. If you switch to a different diet there will be a short period of your body being confused and telling you to go back to what it knows. Then it will adapt to the new diet, and you'll find eating healthy food feels great.
I consider my regular diet to be for the most part Healthy!!
My blood work numbers verify this...
I like veggies, I try to eat what's in season, I mix this in with a very LOW carb diet...ditching most all grains and leaning Keto towards the carnivore side of things.
I like to cook and most all I consume is cooked from scratch.
Comment Re:What is it with surveillance? (Score 1) 95
Someone rapes your mother, and the police know who it was (and thus his license), but they don't know where he is.
Are you seriously going to argue "it doesn't matter if we could catch your mother's rapist using new technology"?
No..what matters is they get a fucking warrant to then access any information they want.
They should not just have dragnet type data to they can just look through to find a crime.....they should need probably cause, and get warrants....you know, like the US Constitution says?
Comment Re:What is it with surveillance? (Score 1) 95
Crimes go unsolved every day! Serious crimes
That sucks.
BUT....it is still MORE important to protect our constitutional rights,.....dragnets without specific warrants cannot be tolerated.....
Comment Re:Welcome to the rest of the world, AmeriKKKa. (Score 1) 240
ok, if the teddybear eyes were not made in one country the fur made in another the stuffing made in another the packaging made in another then all assembled in yet another.....it would cost 20 times more.. because we can't afford to pay workers to do so..... we would need to find an alternative to the teddybear. like a block of wood or an old sock. do you understand that.....?
Really?
It really wasn't THAT long ago that in the US we did precisely that...we make pretty much EVERYTHING in country....go back to look at the 70's and 60's...etc.
We make most of what we consumed....no reason we couldn't do it again...
Submission + - POLLS: Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter on AI
theodp writes: My knowledge of Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical letter comes from:
* A full reading of the 42,000-word letter
* News report summaries
* Social media (TikTok, Instagram, X)
* Search engine AI summaries
* "What you talkin' bout, Willis?"
* A full reading of the 42,000-word letter
* News report summaries
* Social media (TikTok, Instagram, X)
* Search engine AI summaries
* "What you talkin' bout, Willis?"
Submission + - Code.org Co-Founder Pivots From K-12 CS and AI Education to Piano Lessons
theodp writes: Not long after pivoting his tech-backed nonprofit Code.org's mission from K-12 CS education to include AI literacy late last year, Code.org Co-Founder Hadi Partovi announced he was officially stepping down as CEO of the tech-backed nonprofit, explaining: "For the past two years, I have been operating primarily as Chairman while Cameron handled CEO responsibilities. With Karim’s appointment, my title will be updated to better reflect my contributions and commitment to this organization as Chairman of the Board."
On Sunday, a CBS 60 Minutes segment and USA Today interview revealed Partovi's new passion project has been Payam Music, a small for-profit piano school that Partovi aims to take national as its President and CEO with investors including Mark Cuban, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston.
In a Sunday LinkedIn post, Partovi wrote: "I have a big career announcement: I’m taking my experience teaching computer science to hundreds of millions and connecting it to my lifelong love of piano. Announcing Payam Music: the first nationwide piano school, with a new way of teaching—the Payam Method—endorsed by Hans Zimmer and showcased on 60 MINUTES and USA TODAY. With Payam Music, students learn faster, they outperform traditional methods, and they even learn to write their own music. Every year our students rank nationally for their composition and creativity. If you’re worried about kids’ obsession with screens and social media, the solution is to give them a new obsession: piano. Proven over 10 years, the learning outcomes of the Payam Method are extraordinary, and so is the team behind it. Besides Hans Zimmer, we’re announcing the support of iconic business leaders including Mark Cuban, Dara Khosrowshahi, Michelle Zatlyn, Drew Houston, and many others. Payam Music is available in cities around the US and expanding rapidly. Our schools teach 1-on-1 lessons, in person and even online. We have limited spots, so if you or your child want to learn piano, sign up now! And if we don’t have a school near you, join our wait list, we’re growing fast."
On Sunday, a CBS 60 Minutes segment and USA Today interview revealed Partovi's new passion project has been Payam Music, a small for-profit piano school that Partovi aims to take national as its President and CEO with investors including Mark Cuban, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, and Dropbox CEO Drew Houston.
In a Sunday LinkedIn post, Partovi wrote: "I have a big career announcement: I’m taking my experience teaching computer science to hundreds of millions and connecting it to my lifelong love of piano. Announcing Payam Music: the first nationwide piano school, with a new way of teaching—the Payam Method—endorsed by Hans Zimmer and showcased on 60 MINUTES and USA TODAY. With Payam Music, students learn faster, they outperform traditional methods, and they even learn to write their own music. Every year our students rank nationally for their composition and creativity. If you’re worried about kids’ obsession with screens and social media, the solution is to give them a new obsession: piano. Proven over 10 years, the learning outcomes of the Payam Method are extraordinary, and so is the team behind it. Besides Hans Zimmer, we’re announcing the support of iconic business leaders including Mark Cuban, Dara Khosrowshahi, Michelle Zatlyn, Drew Houston, and many others. Payam Music is available in cities around the US and expanding rapidly. Our schools teach 1-on-1 lessons, in person and even online. We have limited spots, so if you or your child want to learn piano, sign up now! And if we don’t have a school near you, join our wait list, we’re growing fast."
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