Tag: Artificial intelligence
I used facial recognition technology on birds
Lewis Barnett, University of Richmond
As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers...
Virtual reality tours give rural students a glimpse of college life
Carol Cutler White, Mississippi State University
The first time that Nyah visited the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a campus tour, there wasn’t...
Congress takes first steps toward regulating artificial intelligence
Ana Santos Rutschman, Saint Louis University
Some of the best known examples of artificial intelligence are Siri and Alexa, which listen to human speech, recognize...
Meet AICAN, a machine that operates as an autonomous artist
Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University
When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant element of...
50 years old, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ still offers insight about...
Daniel N. Rockmore, Dartmouth College
Watching a 50th anniversary screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” I found myself, a mathematician and computer scientist whose research...
Why we’re training the next generation of lawyers in big data
Anne Tucker, Georgia State University and Charlotte Alexander, Georgia State University
Artificial intelligence is transforming the traditional delivery of legal services.
In general terms, the set...
Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand...
Wesley Wildman, Boston University
When disaster strikes, people often turn to religion for comfort and support. A powerful recent example of this comes from a...
Stephen Hawking warned about the perils of artificial intelligence – yet...
Ana Santos Rutschman, DePaul University
The late Stephen Hawking was a major voice in the debate about how humanity can benefit from artificial intelligence. Hawking...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
