What if there were a virtual assistant to help you make real-life decisions, like whether you should start a brewery or go to business school? Project Sapphire, a collaboration between IBM and the University of Michigan, is aimed at building an artificially intelligent academic advisor that guides undergraduate students through their course options, helps pick extracurricular activities and eventually dishes out advice on their careers.
Both research teams have picked the college campus as their starting point. They believe observing interactions between thousands of students and their faculty will help them develop a conversational system that has an EQ to match its IQ.
via Engadget
