{"id":66613,"date":"2019-03-23T20:58:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T00:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=66613"},"modified":"2019-03-23T20:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T00:59:23","slug":"mit-has-just-announced-a-1-billion-plan-to-create-a-new-college-for-ai-mit-technology-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/03\/23\/mit-has-just-announced-a-1-billion-plan-to-create-a-new-college-for-ai-mit-technology-review\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI &#8211; MIT Technology Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612293\/mit-has-just-announced-a-1-billion-plan-to-create-a-new-college-for-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from technologyreview.com<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One of the birthplaces of artificial intelligence, MIT,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015\">has announced<\/a>\u00a0a bold plan to reshape its academic\u00a0program around the technology.\u00a0With $1 billion in funding, MIT will create a new college that combines AI, machine learning, and data science with other academic disciplines. It is the\u00a0largest financial investment in AI by any US academic institution to date.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2018\/mit-reshapes-itself-stephen-schwarzman-college-of-computing-1015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The College will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reorient MIT to bring the power of computing and AI to all fields of study at MIT, allowing the future of computing and AI to be shaped by insights from all other disciplines;<\/li>\n<li>create 50 new faculty positions that will be located both within the College and jointly with other departments across MIT \u2014 nearly doubling MIT\u2019s academic capability in computing and AI;<\/li>\n<li>give MIT\u2019s five schools a shared structure for collaborative education, research, and innovation in computing and AI;<\/li>\n<li>educate students in every discipline to responsibly use and develop AI and computing technologies to help make a better world; and<\/li>\n<li>transform education and research in public policy and ethical considerations relevant to computing and AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI &#8212; from technologyreview.com Excerpt: One of the birthplaces of artificial intelligence, MIT,\u00a0has announced\u00a0a bold plan to reshape its academic\u00a0program around the technology.\u00a0With $1 billion in funding, MIT will create a new college that combines AI, machine learning, and data science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,45,403,180,482,353,309,204,217,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-computer-science","category-ethics","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-moralsvalues","category-platforms","category-programming","category-research","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66615,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66613\/revisions\/66615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}