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 'department' of AI (where MIT had merely an AI track within the CS program), and 2) Kai-Fu Lee's recent book on the rise and inevitable domination by China of all things AI-related -- inviting a new 'space race' between the superpowers.  (A 'brain race'?)<p>Yet I can't imagine why an entire 'college' of AI is needed.  AI simply isn't a field that'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'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...