... “Some call it a bubble. Maybe it is,” said Uzezi Olorunmola, who is seeking his doctorate in A.I. at the University of North Dakota, the flagship school in a sparsely populated state that will soon have two universities offering degrees in A.I. ...
And A.I. degrees can vary sharply in their goals.
Several universities are steeping their programs in theory, intending to turn out graduates who can do the under-the-hood work that powers A.I. These include places like Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, which in 2018 became the first American university to offer an A.I. degree. Thirty-three courses are now approved for the major. ...
At many schools, the degrees are often meant to appeal to students who want more training in A.I., whether or not it is central to their discipline. ...
How employers will judge A.I. degrees remains an open question. The reputations of longstanding programs in other disciplines, academic leaders said, could shape how people respond to new ones. ...
Lisa Meeden, a Swarthmore College professor who has worked on A.I. for more than 30 years, wondered whether the programs are examples of “A.I. perpetuating its own hype.”. ...
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