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Thursday, September 07, 2017

IBM Sets up Joint Research Lab with MIT

No specific mention of Watson in the article.   Uses the word Cognitive.   IBM also seems to have stopped most mentions of Watson in major advertising they support on TV.  Yet Watson is still in use, I used it successfully in a project just last month.

IBM invests $240M to build a joint AI research lab with MIT   by Eric David in Silicon Angle

IBM Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced today that they are teaming up to build a new joint research lab aimed at furthering the development of artificial intelligence.

Over the next 10 years, IBM says that it will invest $240 million in building the new lab, which will focus on four “pillars” of AI research:

AI algorithms: The advanced algorithms that power AI

Physics of AI: The hardware and materials required to handle extremely powerful AI

Application of AI to industries: The use cases of how AI can be used to improve business processes

Advancing shared prosperity through AI: The ethics of developing AI and the ways it can be used to promote social good

“The field of artificial intelligence has experienced incredible growth and progress over the past decade. Yet today’s AI systems, as remarkable as they are, will require new innovations to tackle increasingly difficult real-world problems to improve our work and lives,” said John Kelly III, senior vice president of cognitive solutions and research at IBM. “The extremely broad and deep technical capabilities and talent at MIT and IBM are unmatched, and will lead the field of AI for at least the next decade.” .... '

" ....IBM is not the first major tech firm to invest in academic AI programs. For example, Alphabet Inc. created a $3.4 million research grant in November for the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, and members of Alphabet’s DeepMind team have previously taught Masters-level machine learning courses at University College London. Chinese web giant Baidu Inc. has also worked on a number of AI projects in collaboration with Stanford University.  .... "

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