Is Artificial Intelligence the Key to Personalized Education?

For Joseph Qualls, it all started with video games. That got him "messing around with an AI program," and ultimately led to a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Memphis. Soon after, he started his own company, called RenderMatrix, which focused on using AI to help people make decisions. Much of the company's work has been with the Defense Department, particularly during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the military was at the cutting edge in the use of sensors and seeing how AI could be used to help train soldiers to function in a hostile, unfamiliar environment. Qualls is now a clinical assistant professor and researcher at the University of Idaho's college of engineering, and he hasn't lost any of his fascination with the potential of AI to change many aspects of modern life.