Berkeley leads $10M program to probe foundations of deep learning
EECS professors to head five-year, multi-institution research project funded by NSF, Simons Foundation
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Robot see, robot do, AI-style
Berkeley Engineering researchers, in collaboration with an Intel team, have taught a surgical robot to suture by showing it surgical videos of actual doctors.
Learning to learn
Researchers are using deep reinforcement learning techniques to equip robots with cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities.
Good for the image
Using a type of deep learning known as a fully convolutional neural network, a new computer algorithm can recognize abnormal CT scans.
Energy-saving AI is coming for your office thermostat
EECS professor Costas Spanos thinks you should track your workers and hand over the lights and temperature controls to artificial intelligence
COVID-19 first target of new AI research consortium
UC Berkeley and UIUC are the headquarters for the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which announced a call for research proposals for AI technology to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Using AI to detect and fight the coronavirus
UC Berkeley robotics lab director Ken Goldberg predicts that if COVID-19 becomes a pandemic, it may lead to more robots in more environments
Ruzena Bajcsy honored for ‘upending science’
Popular Mechanics magazine named EECS professor Ruzena Bajcsy as one of 37 women who “upended science, tech, and engineering for the better.” Bajcsy, who conducted pioneering work in robotics and artificial intelligence, joins a list that includes Katherine Johnson of NASA and Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie
Technology developed by Berkeley robotics researchers put to real world use
Covariant, an AI robotics company built on research that began at Berkeley, is garnering attention in the world of industrial automation.
AI-powered Berkeley robot among Popular Science’s ‘Best of What’s New’
Pieter Abbeel, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, led a team of researchers to develop Blue, the Berkeley robot for Learning in Unstructured Environments.
Building a world where data privacy exists
Electrical engineering and computer sciences professor Dawn Song, a leading expert in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, is building a platform in which people control their own data online and are compensated for its use by corporations.
Silicon Valley combating deepfake videos that could upend an election
Leaders in artificial intelligence are unveiling a tool to push back against deepfake videos, built in part on scanning software that UC Berkeley has been developing in partnership with the U.S. military.
Moments of untruth
Computer science researchers are using groundbreaking machine learning technologies to expose deepfake videos, manipulated images and other types of digital deception.
With AI, machines become expert at reading brain scans
A computer algorithm developed by scientists at UCSF and UC Berkeley bested two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans – an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients with traumatic brain injuries, strokes and aneurysms.
Warning! AI is heading for a cliff
Electrical engineering and computer sciences professor Stuart Russell proposes a solution to AI’s fundamental “design error.”