I read many opinions here about the press release that Brainchip was officially engaged with universities and Kristopher Carlson was to deliver part of the course content.
I read one particularly detailed post (apologies to the poster for not presently recalling your name) setting out their research regarding Carnegie Melon’s exalted position in the technology academic world and I thought why is there such a subdued response to what I thought was sensational news.
I then thought perhaps I am wrong about its importance as there seemed to be overall a sort of ‘that’s nice’ approach from the majority and so I put it to one side until reading the following just now in the article posted by
@Sirod69 :
“In the past semester, the AI start-up had successfully completed a pilot phase at Carnegie Mellon University. John Paul Shen, professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, said about the program:
‘Our students had a great experience in using the Akida development environment and analyzing the results of the
experience in using the Akida hardware. We look forward to continuing and expanding this program in 2023.’
The successful completion of the pilot phase at Carnegie Mellon and the official launch of the program in five US universities is an absolute respectable success for an Australian chip developer.
After all, according to the magazine U.S. News & World Report the best AI course in the country - even before the elite tech universities MIT and Stanford.
Without question, BrainChip is once again setting an exclamation mark in the industry. Most recently, the AI specialist had succeeded in a strong coup in May with the inclusion in the AI Partner Program of market giant ARM.”
Leave aside the future benefits of students entering the workforce; leave aside the academic peer reviewed articles that will result; just think about how as recognised by the above writer this achievement will be viewed by customers particularly the top tech companies where graduates of Carnegie Mellon have been head hunted from for decades because of its high status in the tech world not to mention how this endorsement will play with Governments and Defence Departments around the World.
Let the WANCA’s ignore the significance at their peril.
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AKIDA BALLISTA