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AI Headlines from Around the University

Cornell mathematicians win grants to ensure AI safety, research integrity

As mathematicians work through challenges related to AI, Cornell math faculty members are leading the field with work integrating AI into math and mathematics into AI.

Study finds trust is the missing ingredient for AI-driven food safety

New research has found that although food companies recognized clear benefits to pooling confidential food safety, concerns about trust, competition and shared standards continue to stand in the way.

Cornell leads project putting robots to work in US orchards

A Cornell-led research project is developing robots that can perform labor-intensive orchard operations; it’s supported by a four-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative. 

Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students

After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff.

Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images

A Cornell research group has devised a way to generate an image of multiple people, incorporating the poses of all individuals to inform the image generation and make the scene more believable and accurate.

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Cornell Tech Launches Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative

May 7, 2024

The new initiative will be led by director Alexios Mantzarlis and aims to become a global hub for researchers, students, and practitioners focusing on online systems security and user safety.

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Students revive classic microchip fabrication with open-source tools

May 6, 2024

A unique project team enables Cornell undergraduates to use emerging open-source hardware to design, test and fabricate their own microchips – a complex, expensive process that is rarely available to students.

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OpenAI funds Choudhury’s work to keep superhuman AI in check

May 3, 2024

Sanjiban Choudhury, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, will receive a $150,000 grant from OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company that has developed ChatGPT and other generative AI models, for work that may one day help ensure that superhuman AI systems stay under human control.

Ralitsa Todorova, a fellow in the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral program, presents her poster on decoding neuronal activity during the AI for Science year-end showcase.

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AI, collaboration a potent force in AI for Science showcase

May 3, 2024

20 Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows presented their ongoing research projects during an end-of-year showcase for the AI for Science course (CS 6703) held April 19 in Gates Hall.

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CVM hosts inaugural conference on AI in veterinary medicine

May 2, 2024

For the first time ever, experts in veterinary medicine, AI researchers, industry pioneers, and thought leaders from around the world gathered at to the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine.

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Satellite images of plants’ fluorescence can predict crop yields

May 1, 2024

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a new framework that allows scientists to predict crop yield without the need for enormous amounts of high-quality data – which is often scarce in developing countries, especially those facing heightened food insecurity and climate risk.

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AI apps and robots take home awards at BOOM

April 25, 2024

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.

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People, not design features, make a robot social

April 22, 2024

Researchers who develop social robots – ones that people interact with – focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, like human-to-human interactions, the contexts where they happen and cultural norms involving robots.

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Brooks School Tech Policy Institute focuses on intersection of national security and tech policy

April 22, 2024

We live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences.