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'?)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.Maybe this was the only way to ensure the gift of all $350 million.  Or to build multiple new buildings...