Industry Partnership Leads to Global AI Competition
Jonsson School students and faculty members have teamed up with CauseBot, an artificial intelligence software company that creates next-generation funding solutions for nonprof-its, to compete in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition. The three-year, $5 million global competition challenges teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s grand challenges. CauseBot is the only competitor from Texas. CauseBot’s competition partners also include the Richards Group, Gardere, the City of Frisco Economic Development Corporation and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas.