Artificial Intelligence is one of the most exciting fields of growing technology. There are incredible advancements in AI happening on a regular basis. Many of the top universities around the world are involving themselves in some very interesting and exciting AI projects. These projects cover a pretty wide range of subjects and objectives, but they all aim to make very interesting and exciting advancements in the field of artificial intelligence. Universities ranging from the University of Washington to Carnegie Mellon to Harvard and Oxford are putting their best and brightest minds towards some very intriguing AI projects. There are a great deal of exciting and interesting artificial intelligence projects happening at universities all over the world, and these are the 5 most exciting projects.
Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows – University of Washington Paul G Allen School
Paul G Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering is home to a variety of interesting AI projects. The Decision-Theoretic Control for Crowdsourced Workflows is an exciting project that looks at the decision making process behind crowdsourced work and looks to automate it. Crowd sourced workflows are ran by companies through services like Amazon’s mechanical turk program. Companies assign small chunks of a project to a web of individuals who each check parts of the others work, ultimately resulting in a finished project that many different individuals have had a hand in. However, one of the challenges for companies employing this type of work is that it can be somewhat difficult and time consuming to create the broader plan for completing these projects. There are a lot of moving parts involved in a project with so many contributors so it can be challenging to align the web of contributors in a way that is effective towards completing the project. However, this project aims to develop an artificial intelligence that can delegate these tasks by itself, which would be a major innovation in this field.
4CAPS – Carnegie Mellon
4CAPS is a project that has been developed by Carnegie Mellon. It is a cognitive architecture that is able to account for both traditional behavioral data as well as the results of neuroimaging studies. It is an advanced cognitive architecture that is a hybrid architecture because it combines connectionist and symbolic mechanisms in its environment. It is the successor of the original CAPS architecture developed in 1982.
Aries – University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems
Aries is a very exciting education related project being developed by the University of Memphis Institute for Intelligent Systems. It is an educational environment where two animated pedagogical agents hold talks with human students about various science subjects. This program is meant to engage with students and help them learn more about various parts of their science class, and will be integrated into electronic textbooks in a game like environment. This is a project with a lot of exciting possibilities in the field of education.
Harvard University is studying how AI can be made to think more efficiently and faster, like human brains. They have received 28 million dollars in funding from the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity, or IARPA, to study this subject. The general goal of this study is to understand how artificial intelligence can gain the efficiencies of the human brain which does not need to spend nearly as much time on processing subjects as artificial intelligence does. This will ideally create a synthesis between the benefits of human brains and artificial intelligence with the functionality and efficiency of the human brain and the ability for processing a great volume of data that AI benefits from.
Oxford University / Google Deepmind
Some of the top researchers from Oxford University have been hired by Google to work with their Deepmind team, which focuses on artificial intelligence projects. They will be working on image recognition and natural langue understanding. This is part of a broader partnership between Oxford and Deepmind, which has lots of exciting potential.
Overall, there are a great deal of exciting artificial intelligence projects happening at Universities around the world. From promising educational tools to in depth studies to AI planning projects, University groups are working on many different AI projects that have the potential greatly impact their associated fields.
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