Staying alert
Engineers have designed earbuds that can detect signs of drowsiness in the brain.
Artificial intelligence archive
Q+A on AI and traffic management
HumanLight is a traffic signal control algorithm that uses AI to prioritize the throughput of people, rather than vehicles, at intersections.
Evo: Creating generative AI for genomes
Arc Institute: Multimodal artificial intelligence model can interpret and generate genomic sequences at a vast scale
How UC Berkeley researchers are making online spaces safer for all
Researchers are building tools to support freedom of expression on the internet while minimizing the potential for harm
Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes
Hany Farid shows how to spot AI-generated political content
AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD
Hub led by Stanford and UC Berkeley gets funding for three projects aimed at ultra-efficient hardware for AI applications
Kristin Persson receives DOE’s Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award
Berkeley Lab: Award recognizes “pioneering advancements in data-driven materials design and discovery,” provides $1M in direct funding to support her research
Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds
Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness
CS Ph.D. student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities
CDSS: Hellina Hailu Nigatu to develop computing tools with “community values in mind”
Student engineers named UC Berkeley Climate Innovation fellows by CITRIS
CITRIS: Rising entrepreneurs Youngseok Jo and Bear Häon will receive $10,000 each to advance innovative projects that address urgent environmental challenges
Using AI to get people out of their cars and into HOVs
HumanLight traffic signal technology incentivizes ridesharing
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
MIT Technology Review: Researchers are using generative AI, other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes
EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova
School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created
Francisca Vasconcelos chosen as Paul and Daisy Soros New American fellow
CDSS: EECS doctoral student to receive up to $90,000 through merit-based program for immigrants, children of immigrants
How to keep AI from killing us all
UC Berkeley researchers: Companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe