Johns Hopkins and Amazon collaborate to explore transformative power of AI
Johns Hopkins University and Amazon are teaming up to harness the power of artificial intelligence to transform the way humans interact online and with the world. The new JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI, housed in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, will leverage the university’s world-class expertise in interactive AI to advance groundbreaking technologies in machine learning, computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech processing; democratize access to the benefits of AI innovations; and broaden participation in research from diverse, interdisciplinary scholars and other innovators. “Computer vision and machine learning are transforming the way in which humans shop, share content, and interact with each other,” Rene Vidal, Director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science, said. “This partnership will lead to new collaborations between JHU and Amazon scientists that will help translate cutting-edge advances in deep learning and visual recognition into algorithms that help humans interact with the world.”