Suvrath Mahadevan, Penn State; Guðmundur Kári Stefánsson, Princeton University, and Megan Delamer, Penn State Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a…
Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence’s breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of conversations snowballed across social media, and the use of…
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Madeline Atwell, Clemson University and Katherine Weisensee, Clemson University A seasoned deer…
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University The turmoil at ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, bookended by…
R. Stanley Williams, Texas A&M University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea For the first time, my colleagues and I have built a single…
H. Colleen Sinclair, Mississippi State University The holiday season is already a booming time for online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic only increases the likelihood that when people shop this holiday season, they…
Kate Saenko, Boston University This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out…
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University – Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems, they have privileges even people don’t. Case in…
“We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere,” reads the headline on an ad found on the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal newspapers today. The…
Seth M. Weinberg, University of Pittsburgh and John R. Shaffer, University of Pittsburgh Takeaways A new study reveals more than 130 regions in human DNA play a role in sculpting facial features.…
Tam Nguyen, University of Dayton Editor’s note: One of the central technologies of artificial intelligence is neural networks. In this interview, Tam Nguyen, a professor of computer science at the University of…
Raquel Velho, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A mere two weeks after the National Science Foundation declared it would close the Arecibo single-dish radio telescope – once the largest in the world – the…
Amazon is not just the largest e-commerce retailer, the company also has a significant copyright portfolio. In recent years the company has increased its anti-piracy efforts, both individually and as a member…
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut College Takeaways A “deep learning” software program from Google-owned lab DeepMind showed great progress in solving one of biology’s greatest challenges – understanding protein folding. Protein folding is the…
