How Florida is looking to build the ‘nation’s first AI university’
University of Florida Provost Joe Glover said the school is aiming to build the “nation’s first AI university,” using the technology in the curriculum and to help campus operations.
Glover said Chris Malachowsky, one of the original co-founders of technology company Nvidia and a graduate of the Gainesville-based university, offered officials at the University of Florida an AI-powered supercomputer “out of the blue” and asked what they would do with it.
One of the first things the school did to embed AI into its operations was build an engine to predict how well students would perform in what Glover called “critical gateway courses,” and whether interventions like coaching, tutoring or other...
