IBM and MIT partner to advance AI machine vision

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute Technology (MIT) are teaming up to advance the development of machine vision using insights from the brain and cognitive research. The multi-year partnership will see IBM Research collaborate with MIT's Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences (BCS) to advance frontiers of artificial intelligence in real-world audio-visual comprehension technologies. The organisations are building a research laboratory for brain-inspired multimedia machine comprehension (BM3C) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Together they plan to develop cognitive computing systems that mimic the human ability to understand and integrate input from several sources for use in various computer applications in industries like healthcare, education, and entertainment. MIT researchers will work with IBM scientists and engineers, who will offer technology expertise and advances from the IBM Watson platform.