AI for Everyone - Chuck Reece, Colby News
The Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence has built an infectious culture of cross-campus collaboration aimed at improving the human condition. Two years ago, when Colby used a $30-million gift from the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund to launch the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, President David A. Greene talked to dozens of reporters. They all wanted an answer to this question: Why would a tiny liberal arts college in northern New England create an academic and research-based institute dedicated to a discipline that sits at the very forefront of science and technology?