12/03/2024 - Co-hosts Marc Airhart and Casey Boyle talk with CS Professor Peter Stone to distinguish what is and is not artificial intelligence. Stone, also director of Texas Robotics, executive director of Sony AI America, works on the 100 Year Study on AI and is part of UT’s Good Systems initiative. Airhart, Boyle, and Stone talk about ethical AI use and what is the best way of thinking about it in this artificial intelligence primer.
12/03/2024 - A new podcast, made in collaboration with the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Liberal Arts, will answer the burning questions in all things artificial intelligence. Guests from across campus will engage in conversations with co-hosts Marc Airhart, a science communicator for CNS and Casey Boyle, associate rhetoric professor and Digital Writing and Research Lab Director.
11/19/2024 - Mina Huh, a computer science Ph.D. student at UT Austin, has been awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship, the company announced on November 14.
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.
09/18/2024 - The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to lead the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, a new $20 million research initiative focused on using AI to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries, from dark matter to the origins of life. Greg Durrett, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT, is a co-investigator on this groundbreaking project, further cementing UT’s leadership in AI research.
09/04/2024 - NSF-funded system expands TACC’s capacity for AI with Arm-based NVIDIA technology
08/01/2024 - Peter Stone of UT computer science leads Sony AI in the U.S. and is now its chief scientist and deputy president.
05/17/2024 - Researchers are using corrupted data to help generative AI models avoid the misuse of images under copyright. Powerful new artificial intelligence models sometimes, quite famously, get things wrong — whether hallucinating false information or memorizing others’ work and offering it up as their own. To address the latter, researchers led by a team at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a framework to train AI models on images corrupted beyond recognition.
05/16/2024 - Guide-dog users and trainers can provide insight into features that make robotic helpers useful in the real world.