The business college’s dean, Ross Dickens, described AI as “a system that, in effect, thinks for itself, meaning we’ve trained it on data and it has learned from that data better ways to interpret it than what we first told it.”
For example, AI can predict how many vehicles will travel to Montgomery during a given period of time based on traffic patterns.“We as a business school are taking this instead of having it within engineering or computer science. They develop these systems. A lot of what we’re trying to do in the business school is talk about how to manage these things,” said Dickens.Dickens said he is confident this knowledge will help students land jobs and make them even greater assets to their employers.
“Improve it, use it as a tool, so that we can have our students be able to go to companies and improve the efficiency of what they’re doing,” said Dickens.Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the