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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Prasenjit Mitra & Dan Lopresti | Teen Connect

Prathysha Kothare explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on our society and the role it plays at the intersection of social justice, human rights, and technology.

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AI Hub to help enhance Penn State's global leadership in artificial intelligence

AI Hub to help enhance Penn State's global leadership in artificial intelligence

Penn State has launched an expanded initiative in Artificial Intelligence (AI), termed the AI Hub, which will bring together the University’s considerable resources and talent in AI to further advance its position as a global leader developing fundamental innovations in AI, in using AI and machine learning (ML) to solve the hardest challenges, and to create unique applications of AI and ML in unforeseen areas.

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Center for Socially Responsible AI announces inaugural seed funding awards

Center for Socially Responsible AI announces inaugural seed funding awards

The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence recently announced the recipients of its inaugural round of seed funding. The center awarded more than $93,000 to five interdisciplinary research projects.

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A language generation program’s ability to write articles, produce code and compose poetry has wowed scientists

GPT-3 is stunning computer scientists with its humanlike ability to learn, summarize and compose text.

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How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer

There are a number of factors that impact how researchers calculate the infection fatality rate of COVID-19, leading to much uncertainty regarding this important number.

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New research center will focus on socially responsible artificial intelligence

Penn State will be well positioned to recognize and interpret the social implications of artificial intelligence (AI), thanks to a new, multi-unit research center launched this spring.

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