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Student creates smart glasses for people with hearing loss
Nirbhay Narang ’25 has created smart glasses to help people manage this situation. The glasses use AI to provide transcriptions of conversations in real time, which can be viewed both on the glasses and on a phone.
AI speech-to-text can hallucinate violent language
Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and OpenAI’s speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered.
Female AI ‘teammate’ engenders more participation from women
A new study suggests that the gender of an AI’s voice can positively tweak the dynamics of gender-imbalanced teams and could help inform the design of bots used for human-AI teamwork.
Successful Artificial Intelligence Event Inspires Large Audience on May 29
The Emerging Tech Dialogues event on May 29, 2024 — the first in a new series — drew more than 750 registrations from Cornell, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Cornell Tech faculty, staff, students, and researchers — all interested in exploring Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, the symposium’s theme.
Through research and education, Bowers CIS is shaping fairer, ethical AI
In its world-class research and teaching, Cornell Bowers CIS is uniquely positioned to guide tomorrow’s innovators as they dive into issues of ethics, fairness and privacy, while weighing the policy implications of technological advances.
AI-generated empathy has its limits
Researchers from Cornell Tech, Cornell and Stanford University found that, despite their ability to display empathy, conversational agents such as Siri do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user’s experience.
AI apps and robots take home awards at BOOM
Apps that use artificial intelligence to help with tutoring, labeling medical images and perfecting your form while exercising, websites that address social issues with technology, and a robot that may one day colonize Mars all won awards at the annual Bits On Our Minds student technology showcase.