Artificial Intelligence

03/04/2025 - PhD student Yeonju Ro received the 2024 IBM PhD Fellowship award with an endowment of $40,000. 

02/07/2025 - UT Austin researchers have improved their AI-powered brain decoder, allowing it to translate thoughts into continuous text with just one hour of training—far less than the original 16-hour process. This advancement makes the technology more accessible, particularly for individuals with aphasia, by enabling communication without requiring spoken language comprehension. The team is now collaborating with experts in aphasia research to explore its potential for real-world applications.

12/03/2024 - Through all the claims of how AI can help us become healthier, which ones are true and which ones are false? Marc Airhart talks to associate rhetoric professor Scott Graham about the myths of AI and healthcare and potential pitfalls to bringing AI into the field of healthcare.

12/03/2024 - With AI now being easily accessible to the public, should AI be regulated? If so, how? Marc Airhart sits down with lawyer and UT Law lecturer Matthew Murrell to talk about the risks unregulated AI pose, ChatGPT training data, and if regulation could stifle innovation and competition. 

12/03/2024 - Marc Airhart sits down with journalism professor Robert Quigley to talk all about AI and journalism. They talk about AI-generated news, misinformation, and how can AI play a role in the news industry.

12/03/2024 - While AI uses mass amounts of energy, it can also make energy systems more sustainable, efficient and safer. In front of a live audience, three experts in the field talk about AI and energy, as a part of a symposium hosted by the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

11/25/2024 - Risto Miikkulainen, a renowned professor at UT Austin and the VP of AI Research at Cognizant Advanced AI Labs, recently shared fascinating insights in an article for AI Magazine about the game-changing potential of generative AI for machine learning researchers. He highlighted how this shift in technology is set to revolutionize not just research, but the entire landscape of work itself, urging everyone to embrace a tool that mimics the expertise of seasoned human professionals.

11/06/2024 - Five years ago, UT Austin launched the Master’s of Computer Science, creating online pathways to its high-caliber programs. Since then, the university has broadened its offerings to include online programs in data science and artificial intelligence, all now unified under Computer and Data Science Online (CDSO).

10/01/2024 - Computer Science and Mathematics senior Alan Baade really enjoys spending hours on problems.Especially the particularly hard ones, he said. Spending 40 hours on one equation with a small break for sleep somewhere in the middle is rewarding to him.“I think it's because you can tell at the end of this you are going to understand the material,” Baade said.  “You're going to understand computers.”

09/26/2024 - Biotech advances from UT’s new Deep Proteins group are changing the game with help from artificial intelligence.Working as a chemist in Houston, Danny Diaz spent a lot of time plodding his way through crosstown traffic, pondering how to speed up his research.“I realized that my impact in the short term would be limited to the amount of chemistry experiments I could do with my hands,” he recalled.