Learning maths goes (slightly) better with AI, but teacher plays a key role
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Primary school pupils who use an AI-supported learning tool learn arithmetic more quickly than children who do not use such a tool. This is the finding of a multi-year study by Radboud University involving nearly eight thousand children. However, the researchers warn that it's no miracle cure, as the teacher’s role remains essential even with AI.
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has put the HoreKa 2 Supercomputer into operation. The new system will support researchers in their efforts to address complex scientific issues, such as climate, new materials, particle physics, energy, and mobility as well as AI research, more quickly. For this purpose, it combines powerful high-performance computing and modern AI technologies. The total cost of the facility amounts to EUR 17 million.
To simulate event cameras, which can capture brightness changes at microsecond-scale speeds, conventional methods render numerous frames from 3D scenes, resulting in high computational costs. Researchers from Japan developed an efficient method using physically based path tracing to precisely determine event timings. The efficient implementation using GPUs reduces computation time to as little as one-third of a naïve implementation, enabling more efficient training-data generation for event camera applications, including healthcare monitoring, autonomous driving, and robotics.