Mark Cuban Is Seeking the Next Generation of AI ‘Superstars’
Mark Cuban has committed $2 million to expand a program he founded that aims to teach artificial-intelligence skills at no cost to high school students in low-income communities across the country.
“We don’t recognize how much talent is there,” said Mr. Cuban, who lives in Dallas. “One of my goals is to really go out and find the superstars. There are so many there that are under-appreciated and don’t have access to resources.”
Mr. Cuban’s funding will be spent on resources to educate hundreds of students in AI over the next few years, with the goal of teaching 1,000 students a year from 2023. “We’ll test it, build a curriculum, evolve it and iterate it as many times as we have to. This is important, and I’ll keep funding it,” Mr. Cuban said.
He told students he’s learned more about AI through tutorials from Coursera, an organization that offers online computer science classes, and Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services. Branches of AI he has studied include reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks and machine learning.
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