For a place considered to have a high level of natural intelligence, it is funny that one would even think about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Ed. However given that Higher Ed has a lot to do with the creation of AI, we might as well think about if there is a way we can benefit from it. There has been a recent explosion in this area and there are many articles written on this that you can look up in Google. “The Most Exciting Artificial Intelligence Applications in Media” and “Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies” are a couple of interesting (totally randomly selected) readings.

I also encourage you to read “The Great AI Paradox” by Brian Bergstein. This article talks about the distinction between “true” AI and “Computational Statistics” and how some argue that machines are pretty far away from having “true intelligence”. Let us set aside these differences and explore if we can take advantage of what is currently being touted as AI.  (more…)