According to the Associated Press, Davis believes that "complex questions surrounding Artificial Intelligence require a holistic analysis and response that can only come from a broad liberal arts perspective."

Colby College is carving out space in the liberal arts canon for artificial intelligence. Thanks to a $30 million gift from an alumnus, the small, selective college in Maine is establishing the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which aims to integrate machine learning, natural language processing and big data into instruction and research across the college. "We want to be sure we're preparing students well for their futures: lives and careers of meaning and purpose," says Margaret McFadden, provost and dean of faculty at Colby. "Well-educated people have to understand AI, what these tools are and how to use them." Artificial intelligence has homes at other U.S. higher ed institutions, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, and Stanford University.

Colby College is a private liberal arts school located in southern Maine. You can take classes in art history, chemistry, music, all the staples, and now the school is adding artificial intelligence to the list. Colby is among the first liberal arts colleges to create an artificial intelligence institute to teach students about AI and machine learning through the lenses of subjects like history, gender studies and biology. The college received a $30 million gift from a former student to set up its new institute. This, of course, comes as the world is grappling with ethics and AI and how to build a moral foundation into algorithms.

Growers in Illinois are looking for new ways to expand their use of technology, and artificial intelligence is emerging as their way of embracing the future of farm production. Chad Colby, an agricultural technologist and creator of Colby AgTech, said Illinois farmers are starting to look into robotics as a way of managing their crops and are using technology they wouldn't have considered a few years ago. Remote sensing in soil and from the sky has become popular, according to Colby. "Right now, today, the use is coming from satellites, drones and aircraft; but over the next couple years, you'll see those benefits expand as guys start to utilize the benefits of new technology in our soils," Colby said. The costs for using artificial intelligence has gotten cheaper, Colby said.

This weekend, to mark the 60th anniversary of Alan Turing's death, a chatbot named Eugene Goostman--a program pretending to be a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy--fooled one of three assembled judges into thinking that he it is human. Whether this marks the first beating of the Turing Test, the pioneering computer scientist's trial for artificial intelligence, remains a matter of debate; for one thing, one of Turing's qualifications was that the human-fooling be done repeatedly. For another thing, though, there have been other programs that have claimed Turing Test passage. And two of them, one time, talked to each other. In 1966, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created a program that seemed to be a contender for Turing Test passage.

Cloud computing is all well and good for enterprises with big-data applications and consumers with virtual assistants, but it runs into some limits in an isolated cornfield. On farms and other places far from powerful computers and network connections, there's a trend away from centralized computing even while most of the IT world is embracing it. In remote places, the internet of things requires local processing as well as data-center analysis. So-called edge computing is coming to industries including manufacturing, utilities, shipping, and oil and gas. Agriculture is getting it, too.

Ashok Goel, a professor at Georgia Tech, made the news this week with the revelation that one of the TA's that he used in his AI course was actually an "AI." Now, I have no reason to believe that Goel was trying to do something wrongheaded. I think he was just playing around. But the media love AI stories these days and have yet again led the public on a very wrong headed journey about what AI is and what it can be. Could a chatbot be an effective TA? It could certainly beat a rather disinterested TA.

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Kenneth Mark Colby, 1920 - 2001 Kenneth Colby was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1941. Two years later he graduated from Yale's School of Medicine. Colby started his career as a professor of computer science at Stanford, and also did some research for the National Institute of Mental Health. It was there that he created Parry in the university's Artificial Intelligence Library. Parry was a chatterbot, and able to have conversations with people.

Kenneth Mark Colby, 1920 - 2001 Kenneth Colby was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale in 1941. Two years later he graduated from Yale's School of Medicine. Colby started his career as a professor of computer science at Stanford, and also did some research for the National Institute of Mental Health. It was there that he created Parry in the university's Artificial Intelligence Library. Parry was a chatterbot, and able to have conversations with people.