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There is no substitute for what happens in the classroom in those moments of looking over a kids shoulder, seeing what they are working on, being able to correct them. John Martha Maccallum away and in a moment. But the latest on San Francisco schools, hi, claudia. Hi, john. City officials have run out of patience saying the Board Of Education and the School District have failed to lay out a conference of plan to get kids back into classrooms as soon as possible. Thats a violation of state laws of the city is taking its own district to court. Its been nearly 11 months since students here in San Francisco, along with millions of others across the nation started learning remotely. While many other districts and even San Franciscos private schools have resumed in person classes, Public Schools here remain closed. Even though the citys own Health Department says they could reopen safely with proper precautions. The City Attorney says District Leadership needs to get its act together. Unfor
we are still a long way from curing. we have been getting some reaction to all that from sir nigel shadbolt, researcher in al, professor at oxford university. he is the executive chair of the open data institute. health s a good example. drug discovery, prediction of disease, it s already performing at levels to analyse images from ct scans to x rays. there s a whole range of ways in which ai, which is great at finding patterns, great at producing outcomes, great at finding and applying the rules that might help us build better solutions, can operate to our benefit. health s a good example, but so is climate change, another existential threat. it will be the ai driven models that help us understand how the climate is changing and what we can do to ameliorate those effects. they will be hugely consequential. and one could really reel off a whole range of area where the benefits really are there to see. they ve been there for decades. we re seeing them more dramatically reveale