Artificial Intelligence

Yiduo Hao and a researcher using a microphone and a laptop outdoors.

SmartDJ lets users reshape audio experiences with simple words

Penn Engineers have created an AI-powered audio editor specifically for stereo that responds to simple requests in everyday language.

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Applying AI to accelerate discovery, foster learning

At an Alumni Weekend panel moderated by President J. Larry Jameson, Presidential Associate Professor César de la Fuente of Penn Medicine and Hamsa Bastani of the Wharton School highlighted how research at Penn is putting AI insights and tools into practice.

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‘Obvious markers of AI’: Doubts raised over winner of short story prize

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says a “100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth prize for the Caribbean region,” calling it “a Turing test of sorts.”

AI regulation needs a ‘bank examiner’

Peter Conti-Brown and Kevin Webach of the Wharton School co-authored an opinion piece explaining why AI Frontier labs should have expert bodies to supervise risk, similar to those of bank examiners.

The government hasn’t done enough to regulate AI, most Americans say in a new Penn survey

Shawn Patterson Jr. of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences, the Annenberg School for Communication, and APPC are quoted in a story spotlighting an APPC study on public opinion about AI and its government regulation.

Sen. David McCormick tours AI-powered biotech labs at Penn to promote AI and federal funding admit NSF turmoil

“U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., toured a University of Pennsylvania research laboratory Friday to highlight how artificial intelligence can supercharge advances in biomedical and drug development.”

Many Americans pessimistic about AI’s impact—and want more regulation

Results of a survey from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center find that only 17% of Americans believe AI will have a positive impact on the United States over the next decade, while 42% expect its effects to be negative.

AI doctors should be licensed. Here’s a framework to do that

Alon Bergman of the Perelman School of Medicine created a framework with competencies that AI doctors must possess to be licensed.

New AI method tackles one of science’s hardest math problems

Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects.

Cloak wins $75,000 Perlman Grand Prize in Venture Lab Startup Challenge

Cloak, the winner of Venture Lab’s 10th annual Startup Challenge, is founded by Rishi Ambavanekar Tyler Sacharow, and works with publishers, ranging from news to novels to screenplays, to protect content against AI scraping.

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