Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

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Post by e15ctr0n » Thu, May 10, 2018, 4:28 PM UTC

Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence
cs.cmu.edu

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Post by sp332 » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

What did they call it before? As the article mentions, CMU has been doing AI for a long time.

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Post by epmaybe » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

Seems like the university put a decent amount of thought into the program. I wonder whose brainchild this was, and pushed for it to be its own degree?

Regardless, even if a student no longer decides to pursue AI research or employment after graduation, they still have a marketable skillset for a variety of jobs.

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:04 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #2

What did they call it before? As the article mentions, CMU has been doing AI for a long time.

True that, CMU has been doing AI for a long, long time. In terms of what CMU undergrads called their AI work before... Probably just a focus within a more general major like Computer Science.

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Post by mkirklions » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

Do you call this Artificial Intelligence?

I dont call this AI, I call this automation.

I know AI is a buzzword, but unless something is trying to think, its not AI to me.

What they are talking about seems to be automation through lots of code.

But hey, I havent been keeping up with this field, not sure what people are calling this.

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Post by gervase » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #2

What did they call it before? As the article mentions, CMU has been doing AI for a long time.

Probably "Computer Science", I'm guessing? Most schools (as far as I'm aware) treat AI as a part of computer science.

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Post by bitxbitxbitcoin » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

That... is a cool degree name.

Still waiting for CMU to launch an Undergraduate Degree in Digital Currency, though.

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Post by scott_s » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

I think I now know how the electrical engineers felt in the '50s and '60s.

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Post by deelowe » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

mkirklions wrote: post #5

Do you call this Artificial Intelligence? I dont call this AI, I call this automation. I know AI is a buzzword, but unless something is trying to think, its not AI to me. What they are talking about seems to be automation through lots of code. But hey, I havent been keeping up with this field, not sure what people are calling this.

> additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation

How is this automation and not AI?

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Post by nopinsight » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:09 PM UTC

Related: China has just published the first AI textbook for high-school students.

http://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2144396/china-lo...