Garage
A.I.
This project focuses on the next software revolution: Artificial
intelligence. We want to train a new generation of software engineers
to understand the interdisciplinary nature of intelligence and provide
them with their first insight into how machines can be made smarter
and serve people better.
While most young people have heard about artificial intelligence,
they generaly do not understand what it is. The popular media has for
the main part failed to convey the positive uses of the technology for
improving society and its power to further our understanding of the
human mind. The project is designed to make this particular area in
particular -- and science and technology in general -- more interesting
to young people and raise their awareness of its possibilities.
The project is called "garage A.I." because it
aims to give students enough of a background to start tinkering with
artificial intelligence in their own garage or back yard. To this end
the project encourages participants to use open-source software and
simple components salvaged out of old computers, to build interesting
systems that are in some way intelligent.
[More
detail can be found on the Icelandic
page.]
