International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) join hands to develop a machine modeled on human brain. No Artificial Intelligence system has been developed as yet which has the capability to sense the world as humans we do. Both IBM and MIT’s Department of Brain & Cognitive Scienceannounced a multiyear partnership on Tuesday for working on developing such a system.

A laboratory will soon be opened at research centers of both the institutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The laboratory will be for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension (BM3C) and their researchers will focus on programming a machine that will be able to sense and predict things on IBM Watson pattern.

“We believe that our fields are poised to make key advances in the very challenging domain of unassisted real-world audio-visual understanding and we are looking forward to this new collaboration”, mentioned Dr. Jim DiCarlo, a professor from MIT.The researchers from both IBM and MIT are enthusiastic about the team for developing next generation Artificial Intelligence systems, Dr. Jim added.

These advancements in AI systems will positively affect every sector, be it educational or healthcare. It will certainly make the personal as well as professional lives much easier than earlier systems could do.

According to the vice president of IBM research center,Guru Banavar, such advancements in AI systems when we are already living in world where machines and humans work hand in hand will undoubtedly increase the productivity of our lives. Although a lot of AI advancements have been made lately, but we are still in the initial stages of exploring this technology, he added.

IBM also made an announcement to team up with some other universities for further research in human understanding and a machine’s efficiency.