UF students, get used to this topic: artificial intelligence

The University of Florida on Tuesday announced a $70 million partnership that will bring artificial intelligence to the forefront of the school's technology programs and introduce the topic more broadly to the student body. The joint effort with the California-based company NVIDIA will result in the hiring of 100 new faculty and touch every UF graduate with at least one class exposing them to artificial intelligence concepts, the university said. It also will give UF the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer in higher education, officials said. The discipline is a branch of computer science that has brought the world products like self-driving cars, food delivery robots and computers that engage humans in a game of chess. Artificial intelligence makes it possible for machines to perform human-like tasks by learning from experience and making adjustments.