Amit Sheth, who made an early visit to the University of South Carolina, was surprised when 10 deans showed up at a conference on artificial intelligence.
Sheth, who was then the incoming director of the university’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, knew he needed to pitch the idea to the deans. Instead, it was they who sold him the importance of artificial intelligence.
“They were all telling me why I was interested in AI instead of telling them why I should be interested in AI,” Sheth said in a 2020 interview at the university. rice field. Breakthrough Research journal.
Interest has only grown since the university announced in 2019 that it would establish a research institute. Dozens of researchers across campus are now studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to advance fields ranging from medicine to education, manufacturing, disaster management and transportation.
Three things that make South Carolina’s efforts stand out are (1) the collaborative nature of the research here, (2) its commitment to respecting privacy protocols and harnessing the power of AI in an ethical manner, ( 3) The university’s commitment to prioritizing projects. It will have a direct impact on the real world.
Much of the research on AI is done at engineering and computing universities. However, other universities and schools are also participating. To date, the Institute of Artificial Intelligence has also built partnerships with colleges of nursing, colleges of education, colleges of arts and sciences, colleges of information and communication, schools of public health and medicine, and other departments, and will soon become a hub of interdisciplinary research. It has become. translational research.
“We were set up from the beginning to work together across the university and to work strongly with the rest of the university, and it worked out very well,” says Sheth.
Here are some of the notable efforts of South Carolina researchers in the field of artificial intelligence.
