Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Post by _asummers » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:32 PM UTC

iamcasen wrote: post #26

harveynick wrote: post #13

My undergraduate degree (from The University of Edinburgh) is Artificial Intelligence. I remember when I was visiting different universities in the UK back in 2000, Edinburgh was the only one I saw which offered AI as a "real" degree. Everywhere else it was a specialization which was tacked on in the final year of a computer science degree. That seemed really odd to me then. Seems even odder now.

I'm curious to hear about your experience. In my mind, artificial intelligence can't be separated from computer science. In fact, I feel like you need a full Comp Sci degree before you can effectively apply your skills to real world AI challenges.

Post by murph-almighty » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

bertjk wrote: post #24

"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation."

Post by minimaxir » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:36 PM UTC

jimbokun wrote: post #30

A long long time ago, I got a Bachelors degree in Logic and Computation, with a specialization in Computational Linguistics from the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Carnegie Mellon. Seemed to be the closest thing to an "AI" degree on offer at the time, from my undergrad perspective.

Post by bencoder » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #25

harveynick wrote: post #13

My undergraduate degree (from The University of Edinburgh) is Artificial Intelligence. I remember when I was visiting different universities in the UK back in 2000, Edinburgh was the only one I saw which offered AI as a "real" degree. Everywhere else it was a specialization which was tacked on in the final year of a computer science degree. That seemed really odd to me then. Seems even odder now.

Could be worse, if you'd gone to Reading Uni around then you could have ended up with a Cybernetics degree from the Cybernetics department :)

Post by mkirklions » Thu, May 10, 2018, 5:38 PM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #29

autokad wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only thought on that idea is that it feels like an undergrad in AI is less useful in the sense that most AI positions prefer PHD over masters, let alone undergrad.

On the other hand, I've got a friend with a film degree pulling in decent money in Houston as a solo consultant (hiring contractors as needed (like me)), going from oldschool oil EPC to oldschool healthcare data analysis firms pitching "Big Data analysis" and "AI trained data modeling." Mostly it's plugging .CSVs into google's cloud platform tools, but sometimes I get to peek at some homebrew R or python modeling stu…