Grant To Fund Development of Socially Savvy Artificial Intelligence

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A UArizona research team, including BIO5 members Drs. Kobus Barnard and Mihai Surdeanu, have been awarded $7.5 million to create an artificial intelligence agent that can understand social cues and human interactions, and use that information to help teams achieve their goals. The grant comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is part of DARPA's Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams program.