Artificial Intelligence

The most important skill in the AI era? Taste, says a Wharton expert

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says, as the AI shift happens, “having a sense of style actually matters.”

Why the AI job apocalypse (probably) won’t happen

The A.I. test for Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is: Is it better than your best available human?

Informal research ties ‘more important’ than co-authorship

Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication says her research shows how “we are likely underrepresenting how much we rely on ‘helpful colleagues’” and that it “takes a village to produce research with impact.”

Is your AI ethical, human-centered and pro-social?

Cornelia C. Walther of the Wharton School notes that pro-social AI is “not just about making AI more helpful or ethical. It’s about creating technology that is simultaneously pro-people, pro-planet, and pro-potential.”

Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests

A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built CAMEL, an artificial intelligence model that forecasts dangerous cardiac rhythms before they strike. Their findings pave the way for a new era of real-time, predictive heart care.

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Political campaigns have no idea what’s about to hit them

Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the use of A.I. in politics.

You’re not using ChatGPT wrong—you’re using it too narrowly

Rahul Kapoor of the Wharton School writes, “The breakthrough of [LLMs] is an invention. The harder challenge is innovation: turning that invention into products, services, and business models that create value for customers and allow firms to capture a meaningful share of that value themselves.”

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Using AI to surface unreported GLP-1 side effects in Reddit posts

Researchers at Penn Engineering have identified patient-reported symptoms associated with GLP-1s in 400,000 posts from 70,000 user sand highlighted two main classes of symptoms that warrant further study.

AI and the future of work

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School discusses AI’s potential to replace workers and explores how past technological upheavals can help us navigate the transition.

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Lingjie Liu: Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet

Lingjie Liu of the School of Engineering and Applied Science uses AI both as a subject of research and as a core methodology for building new 3D visual computing systems.

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