Artificial Intelligence

Why the true water footprint of AI is so elusive

Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that net zero climate pledges can’t be achieved under current infrastructure investment plans for generative AI data centers.

Lovelace’s theory in practice: Our learnings from 2000 gen AI projects

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that some business leaders may be missing out on the economic potential of AI.

When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history

Christopher Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his reaction to experimenting with the GPT-3 beta in 2020, the precursor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative AI model.

How MLR@Penn supports student AI researchers

Machine Learning Research @ Penn prepares undergraduates for research by discussing academic papers in small groups, much like book clubs would dissect a novel.

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Can we still detect AI-generated content?

As models like GPT-4 and Claude get better at mimicking humans, researchers at the Wharton School offer a new way to test watermarking—the hidden markers used to identify machine-made text.

Tianwei Wu (left) and Liang Feng (right) demonstrating some of the apparatus used to develop the new, light-powered chip.

Penn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed

Penn engineers have developed the first photonic chip that reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics at the heart of modern AI while reducing energy use.

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(From left) Zachary Ives, Zixuan Yi, and Ryan Marcus.

Improving AI and machine learning

Zixuan Yi, a doctoral student in computer and information science, bridges the gap between learning methods and real-world system constraints utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Campus sky view along Chestnut Street featuring Amy Gutmann Hall and skyline.

Penn to double computing capacity for faculty

The Penn Advanced Research Computing Center, a platform for computational and data-driven research across campus, is soft launching this spring with a full launch later this summer.

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Nami Lindquist, Melanie Herbert, and Alex Popescu

Penn students develop AI-driven solution to transform senior care

Fourth-year students Melanie Herbert, Nami Lindquist, and Alexandra Popescu were awarded the President’s Innovation Prize for Sync Labs, a privacy-centered AI system to address the growing caregiving gap in senior care

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Using satellites, drones, and AI for more sustainable and efficient agriculture

Piotr Lazarek, a fourth-year Penn Engineering and Wharton student from Pawłowice, Poland, won the 2025 President’s Sustainability Prize for Nirby, a real-time farmland management system addressing inefficiencies in fertilizer usage.

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