M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B
This sounds like a direct response to two things (mostly): 1) CMU establishing a &#x27;department&#x27; of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program), and 2) Kai-Fu Lee&#x27;s recent book on the rise and inevitable domination by China of all things AI-related -- inviting a new &#x27;space race&#x27; between the superpowers.  (A &#x27;brain race&#x27;?)<p>Yet I can&#x27;t imagine why an entire &#x27;college&#x27; of AI is needed.  AI simply isn&#x27;t a field that&#x27;s deep or broad enough to warrant an entire college with a handful of distinct majors, like an engineering college or medical school.  Each of this college&#x27;s AI degrees will span distinct problem or solution spaces?  Not likely.<p>Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million.  Or to build <i>multiple</i> new buildings...