Keeping up with AI: U of A students tap into new tools of the tech trade [Video]

AI Core is a workforce development program offered at the University of Arizona. Students are paid to develop AI solutions.

“The first tier is the class where they’re exploring the databases and the AI integrations and the virtual reality,” said Ash Black, Director of AI Core. He also co-teaches the class.

Taoseef Aziz is a student currently part of the AI Core. “This is a space where consumer science students can work with their faculty to kind of research how consumer behavior changes with respect to how they configure the space,” Aziz said.

He is talking about creating a ‘digital twin’ of the Lundgren Consumer Science Lab.

Black explained that this ‘digital retailing’ can help analyze what people are stopping to look at when they enter the store.

Also in this digital retail version of the retail store is an …