Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by MikkoFinell on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:26AM (#17044962)

> Imagine graduating now with an undergrad in big data--that sounded like a good idea 5 years ago.

Is that a good analogy? Big data started out as a marketing buzzword, whereas AI always was an academic field of research.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by learc83 on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:46AM (#17045206)

AI is a very overloaded term. What we currently call "AI" is likely suffering from the same hype bubble that big data did.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by arbie on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:34AM (#17045356)

And yet, most of today's commercial AI requires "big data".

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by learc83 on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:24PM (#17050904)

Yeah big data can be very useful. The reality just doesn't match the hype.

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