AI institute to be set up at UMass Boston

Neural net completion for "artificial intelligence", as done by DALL-E mini hosted on HuggingFace, 4 June 2022 (code under Apache 2.0 license). Upscaled with Real-ESRGAN "Anime" upscaling version (under [https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/master/LICENSE

At UMass Boston, University Hall, the Campus Center and Wheatley Hall

— Photo by Sintakso

Edited from a New England Council report.

The University of Massachusetts at Boston has announced that Paul English has donated $5 million to the university, with the intention of creating an Artificial Intelligence Institute. The Paul English Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute will give students on campus from all fields of study the tools that they’ll need for working in a world where AI is expected to rapidly play a bigger role. UMass said that the institute will “include faculty from across various departments and incorporate AI into a broad range of curricula,” including social, ethical and other challenges that are a byproduct of AI technology. The institute will open in the 2023-2024 school year. 

Paul English is an American tech entrepreneur, computer scientist and philanthropist. He is the founder of Boston Venture Studio.

“‘We are at the dawn of a new era,’ said UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. ‘Like the agricultural revolution, the development of the steam engine, the invention of the computer and the introduction of the smartphone, the birth of artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how we live and work.’

#Artificial Intelligence #Paul English #University of Massachusetts

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