MIT has announced a $1B plan to create a new college for AI (technologyreview.com)

We are on the cusp of beginning to study Neural Networks just like any other naturally occurring phenomena ;)

Also, just announced from MIT Media Lab: a new area of research aimed at understanding the behavior of artificial intelligence systems

Machine Behavior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-_X1CsvOHg

Don't expect too much to come out of this gift. MIT receives almost a billion dollars a year from taxpayers to manage MIT Lincoln Laboratory and never has that much to show for it.