Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by wgyn on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:27PM (#17041653)

Carnegie Mellon was the first university to offer a PhD in Machine Learning (via the Machine Learning Department which, again, I think is relatively unique in its existence). Regardless of how you feel about the hype, they made an early bet on the field and adding an undergraduate degree seems consistent.

Source: https://www.ml.cmu.edu/about/index.html

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by stochastic_monk on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:23PM (#17042150)

What I don't yet understand is how this new AI program differs from machine learning. Is AI about broader questions about conversational interactions and interpretability, closer to the Lisp heydays of 5 decades ago, or more about applications than theory?

Edit: years to decades

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by willsinclair on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:51PM (#17042377)

From the article:

> The bachelor's degree in AI will focus more on how complex inputs — such as vision, language and huge databases — are used to make decisions or enhance human capabilities

My understanding is that AI is more about applying ML concepts to mimic human intelligence.

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