Artificial intelligence archive

Watch just a few self-driving cars stop traffic jams

November 19, 2018

Anyone can start a traffic jam – just by tapping the brakes. Now, scientists at Berkeley have shown that a few self-driving cars can prevent such jams – and in some cases double the average speed of surrounding vehicles.

Fighting fake news

November 14, 2018

Berkeley students have created SurfSafe, a machine learning tool that identifies when an online photo has been doctored.

Microrobots fly, walk and jump into the future

November 14, 2018

Researchers led by Kris Pister are overcoming significant technical hurdles to push the boundaries of robotic miniaturization.

Turning cars into robot traffic managers

October 29, 2018

Berkeley transportation researchers are addressing the emerging era of smart vehicles with a project that uses machine learning to manage traffic where autonomous, semi-autonomous and manned vehicles share the road. They presented their project, called Flow, at the Conference on Robotic Learning.

As companies embrace AI, it’s a job-seeker’s market

October 16, 2018

With artificial intelligence expanding into ever more applications, the number of students trained in AI hasn’t kept pace with the demand for workers – a mismatch reflected at a recent UC Berkeley career fair.

AI may not be bad news for workers

September 14, 2018

Countering fears that artificial intelligence will eliminate millions of jobs, a new report co-authored by Berkeley Engineering roboticist Ken Goldberg says AI may instead enhance job satisfaction for ordinary workers by taking over mundane tasks.

AI-altered video makes it look like you can dance

August 27, 2018

Experimenting with deep learning systems, a team of Berkeley computer science researchers is using artificial intelligence to make dancers look more skillful. The project uses algorithms to pass dance moves via video from a skilled dancer to a virtual skeleton to an amateur subject.

How robot hands are evolving

July 30, 2018

Drawing on the latest in machine learning, Autolab and BAIR Lab researchers are developing robots that can pick up or move all manner of objects, and even learn to make a bed.

Download the world’s largest self-driving dataset

June 7, 2018

The Berkeley DeepDrive Industry Consortium has released an open-source dataset of 100,000 self-driving video sequences – largest of its kind – to the public in hopes of helping engineers develop autonomous vehicles.

Robot’s play

June 2, 2018

Robots can manipulate objects they have never encountered before by building on previous play and observations.

Those four-wheeled robots on campus, explained

May 31, 2018

The presence of talented EECS student engineers, along with plenty of hungry students and a gourmet local food scene, goes a long way to explain the decision by Felipe Chavez to launch his robot-powered meal delivery startup Kiwi in Berkeley.

The future of AI depends on high school girls

May 23, 2018

From a coding summer camp for high schoolers at Stanford to a project showcase for teens and their mentors at Berkeley, AI4All is working to widen the pipeline of women entering the field of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft acquires Berkeley AI company to humanize its bots

May 21, 2018

AI start-up Semantic Machines, co-founded and co-led by EECS professor Dan Klein, is being acquired by Microsoft, which hopes to make its Cortana digital assistant and other bots sound more naturally human by establishing “a conversational AI center of excellence in Berkeley.”

How to interact with robots

May 4, 2018

EECS professor Anca Dragan discusses one of the big challenges in her field of human-robot interaction: getting robots to anticipate human behavior. “It’s not enough to know what people are currently doing. They need to know what’s going to happen in the future.”

AI: The revolution hasn’t happened yet

April 25, 2018

EECS and statistics professor Michael Jordan writes about the opportunity and imperative of developing a “human-centric engineering discipline” to address the ethical concerns of artificial intelligence.