I really do not like this move. AI and Machine Learning require graduate-level mathematical and computational skills. I don't think it's productive to pretend that we can train someone to be even remotely useful in these fields in four years of an undergraduate education. It sounds like an attempt to get around the fundamentals of csci to "skip to the interesting bits," which will produce graduates with a cursory knowledge of computers, programming, math, and data science, which is honestly worse than no knowledge at all.
I'm not fundamentally opposed, but I think this is akin to creating a "Condensed Matter and Nanophysics" undergraduate degree alongside "Physics."
Changing the name of a factory will not change the output. The only solution to creating more and better AI research is to invest in better fundamentals in computer science and mathematics, then create pipelines for specialization. Slow and low.
I'm not fundamentally opposed, but I think this is akin to creating a "Condensed Matter and Nanophysics" undergraduate degree alongside "Physics."
Changing the name of a factory will not change the output. The only solution to creating more and better AI research is to invest in better fundamentals in computer science and mathematics, then create pipelines for specialization. Slow and low.