{"id":434570,"date":"2024-07-16T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/cluster-hire\/?page_id=434570"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:06:28","slug":"foundational-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/cluster-hire\/foundational-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundational Artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Closing the gap to human intelligence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cluster Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The potential benefits of artificial intelligence continue to unfold for corporate, government, and institutional applications. Despite rapid advancements in deep learning, however, the gap between artificial and human intelligence is far from closed. Major funding agencies are prioritizing foundational AI research to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Foundational AI cluster at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pursuing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to profoundly shape and accelerate AI development. Our vision is to build UT\u2019s leadership position by focusing on dynamic learning in the early developmental stage of human intelligence and developing AI solutions inspired by cognitive neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re deepening our foundational understanding of how human infants learn as they interact with their surroundings and applying the insights we gain to advance embodied learning in AI. We aim to apply our foundational findings to robotic learning in embodied environments and to implementation in edge devices. We envision how our work could improve applications such as surgical and social robots. Together we\u2019ll enable AI to make life and lives better in new ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligently Interdisciplinary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re bringing researchers together from fields across UT, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n