Artificial Intelligence IBM is going to school

Students from the seven best American computer science universities will get a chance to experience the artificial intelligence of a supercomputer famous in the Jeopardy quiz show. They can do it next fall.

The partnership between IBM and the top US high schools, announced this week, involves the use of the Watson supercomputer to create new cognitive applications for use in various fields, ranging from medicine to finance.

According to IBM, the next generation of entrepreneurs is now studying at universities, and they need to be introduced to technologies that will be used in the future.

In January of this year, IBM announced that it is investing more than $ 1 billion in a supercomputer, of which about 100 million is intended for startup companies working on projects for Watson. It also includes the construction of new headquarters for the IBM division next to New York University, which is participating in this program.

Partnership with universities is a unique opportunity for students, because the programming laws of conventional computers do not work for Watson. The task of the supercomputer is to provide answers to questions posed in the natural language. The machine processes the information akin to a person, and not just takes the ready answers from its own database. And she learns from her personal experience, developing her cognitive abilities.

It should be noted that there are many who want to work with artificial intelligence. 75 seats for the fall semester were distributed in two days, and on the waiting list there are now 50 students, the Associated Press news agency reports.

In addition to the universities of New York and Michigan, the program will include the Carnegie Mellon University, Ohio State University, the Renaissance Polytechnic Institute, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at Berkeley.

Can artificial intelligence be dangerous to humanity? This question was popularly answered by the famous British physicist Stephen Hawking.

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