Artificial Intelligence

Designing the future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition

At Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition, four teams won awards for demonstrating how to improve stroke recovery, automate eye exams, turn old tires into battery components and improve the efficiency of AI computation on May 2. The four winners received awards in categories ranging from social impact to technological innovation.

How tech companies could shrink AI’s climate footprint

Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that it’s more efficient to cool off a hot computer through liquid cooling rather than blowing air through the entire machine.

Generative AI can help doctors diagnose patients—but is it biased?

A new study by Annnenberg School for Communication professor Damon Centola tests if AI tools could help improve medical care without increasing bias. The findings suggest that “AI can meaningfully augment physician decision-making without introducing inequities in clinical decisions,” Centola says.

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.

Adventures in innovation: Penn Engineering startups lead Venture Lab Challenge

A trio of Penn Engineering startups took home more than $100,000 at the annual Venture Lab Startup Challenge. Sync Labs, whose AI assistant, Alice, is enhancing caregiving for seniors, claimed the Richard and Ellen Perlman Grand Prize, as well as three other awards. Quok.it, which helps customers leverage unused computing power around the world for tasks like AI training, earned the William G. Simpson and R. Drew Kistler Runner Up Prize.

Five ways gen AI is changing workplace identity

At this year’s SXSW Conference, Wharton’s Stefano Puntoni spoke with Google chief measurement strategist Neil Hoyne about the impact of generative AI on employees and the workplace.

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.

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