BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York State budget allocated $275 million to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo's campus, home to the National A-I Institute for Exceptional Education.
State leaders toured the facility on Wednesday where students are developing a variety of programs, largely centered on creating efficiencies through artificial intelligence.
"The whole goal of our lab is to simplify life and sort of take out those repetitive tasks from people's lives and put it in the hands of a computer," said Lorenzo Price, a Junior from Williamsville majoring in Computer Science, as he explained a program he was working on that could assist professors grading papers and tests.
UB's history in the field of artificial intelligence goes back a lot longer than you might think, to the 1990's, when UB researchers developed a handwriting recognition system for the US Postal Service.
Those plotting the course and developing uses for artificial intelligence insist it's not something to be feared, but to be harnessed.
The question of what to do with it is being answered by young people whose future will be in a world increasingly dependent on A-I.
According to SUNY, researchers are committed to using AI for social good, including developing new technologies that address food insecurity, the shortage of speech-language pathologists in K-12 education, information integrity and deepfakes, and the need for improved stroke treatment and medical imaging.
Students explain the type of work they are doing in the video attached to this story.