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What is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?

03/21/23 — Berkeley experts in artificial intelligence are studying how ChatGPT and similar tools will transform everything from admissions screening and research to writing college essays
A patient who lost the ability to speak due to severe paralysis uses a brain-computer interface to silently spell out sentences from a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words.

Giving a voice to all

11/08/22 — Advances in brain-computer interfaces may soon make communication easier for those who have lost the ability to speak
Berkeley researchers Hannah Stuart and Laura Treers demonstrate EMBUR, a burrowing robot modeled on mole crabs

Digging deep

11/07/22 — The design of EMBUR, one of the first legged robots that can self-burrow vertically, was inspired by the Pacific mole crab.
A quadruped robot navigates uphill terrain

Step by step

10/26/22 — Berkeley robots learn to walk on their own in record time
Berkeley researchers Hannah Stuart and Laura Treers demonstrate EMBUR, a burrowing robot modeled on mole crabs

Digging deep

10/10/22 — Inspired by nature, the burrowing mole crab robot is a feat of engineering with real-world applications
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For your eyes only

08/10/22 — A faster, more secure approach to machine learning helps safeguard private information
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Just for you

08/02/22 — Research reveals manipulative tendencies of content recommender systems and possible ways to prevent them
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Too good to be true

04/15/22 — A study has found that the use of online databases could introduce bias into AI algorithms developed for medical imaging.