AI studio opens for college students in Warner Robins, Georgia
The AI-Enhanced Robotic program is for all the veterans, service members and their families interested in working with artificial intelligence in the field.
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — For all the veterans, active duty service members and their families interested in working with artificial intelligence in the field, a program offered at the Central Georgia Technical College may present you with that chance.
Through the AI-Enhanced Robotic program, instructor Deryk Stoops says students can prepare for careers in the military where they’ll be working with AI in the field.
“We still want people involved in the process, but we want the process to be safer smarter faster,” Stoops said. “Those are all good uses of AI.”
They practice training out of the AI-Enhanced Robotic Manufacturing Studio, which is at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource (VECTR) Center in Warner Robins.
Since last fall, the students, who come from every military branch, have been practicing their coursework out of the studio.
It’s supposed to make their military jobs easier to tackle, Stoops explained.
“Especially when we’re talking math about crunching numbers finding data– those are all things that computers are really good at, so let’s let computers do that,” Stoops said.
The program encourages all types of people from the military to apply.
Stoops said he’s seen people come from backgrounds where they used to be cooks, or infantry, to satellite communications, warfare, anti-drone and more.
One student said he came from a communications and electronics background where he worked with radio and satellites, which made him want to stick with the program.
Stoops explained his students learn how to operate the robots so that the tech can handle the monotonous tasks while the humans can focus on the harder jobs at hand.
“They’re doing the good work with their hands, and the robots are doing the heavy lifting and things we don’t want to do,” he said.
