AI at Tec de Monterrey
Our Commitment to AI
At Tec de Monterrey, we aim to understand and apply artificial intelligence (AI) in education, seeing it as a key driver of innovation. We focus on helping our students develop both cross-disciplinary and specialized AI-related skills, preparing them for diverse professional and workplace scenarios, always from an ethical perspective.
Through research, education, and collaboration across disciplines, we promote AI-driven innovation, equipping our faculty and staff to use it efficiently and responsibly, ensuring a positive impact on our institution and community.
Our philosophy is to use AI ethically, respecting human dignity, promoting integrity and autonomy, and ensuring a safe environment aligned with our institutional values, addressing challenges and opportunities with agility.
How do we do it?
Our strategy to integrate artificial intelligence into our educational and organizational model is based on five pillars:
- AI for teaching and learning
- Development of expert AI professionals
- Research and development in AI
- Ethical use of AI
- Use of AI to improve operations and service experiences
Discover the World of AI: Beyond Fiction
We’ve all likely heard the term “artificial intelligence,” but do we know what it means? AI is about developing technologies that enable machines to perform complex tasks requiring skills like reasoning, problem-solving, understanding language, and analyzing data. UNESCO describes it as a set of tools that mimic or even surpass some human capabilities, such as creativity, language, and logical reasoning.
How does it work? AI is based on key principles: learning from data (machine learning), processing information through artificial neural networks, and optimizing decisions to make them more efficient. Thanks to these principles, AI systems can identify patterns, adapt to new situations, and improve their performance over time, mimicking some aspects of human thought processes.
From ANI to AGI: AI That Transforms
Are there different types of AI? Are they the same? What are they? Artificial intelligence (AI) is divided into two main types: Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
ANI, the type of AI we use today, is designed for specific tasks like playing chess, driving cars, or answering questions. It relies on technologies such as machine learning, neural networks, and optimization. It also uses tools like symbolic logic and knowledge graphs to organize information. An example of this is ChatGPT, which processes language and answers questions naturally.
On the other hand, AGI aims to match human intelligence, but this remains a work in progress. This goal aspires for machines to possess cognitive abilities similar to or even more advanced than humans.
Source: Sabzalieva, E., & Valentini, A. (2023). ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Quick Start Guide.
