Artificial Intelligence

Forbes

Are there jobs that AI can’t replace?

Christian Terwiesch of the Wharton School advocates using ChatGPT to generate ideas.

EdSurge

An education chatbot company collapsed. Where did the student data go?

Rob Nelson of the Provost’s Office says that it’s too soon in the development of generative AI tools to scale up one idea to a whole school district or college campus.

Screenshot of University Atlas Project visualization.

Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences

Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty.

Fortune

A majority of CFOs admit they don’t fully understand AI

A report by Amy Wang Huber of the Wharton School found that broker-dealers’ power over cash lenders in the repo market generates substantial profit for the dealers while affecting many downstream asset prices.

EdSource

As more AI tools emerge in education, so does concern among teachers about being replaced

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School worries that many businesses and organizations are too focused on efficiency and downsizing as they rush to adopt AI technologies.

Cropped Hands Of Journalists Interviewing a politician.

Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.

Robots around a larger-than-life-size typewriter.

The limits of ChatGPT for scriptwriting

A paper co-authored by experts at Penn Engineering found that ChatGPT’s overzealous content moderation could potentially limit artistic expression.

Forbes

AI-pocalypse and the world without accountants: What will happen?

A team of researchers from Penn and OpenAI found that accountants and auditors are among the occupations with the highest exposure to AI.

CNBC

AI is getting very popular among students and teachers, very quickly

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School reviews new polling data that indicates generative AI’s growing popularity among students and teachers.

Cesar de la Fuente, Fangping Wan, and Marcelo der Torossian Torres.

Looking to AI to solve antibiotic resistance

Researchers across Penn have developed an artificial intelligence tool for mining genetic elements from ancient molecules to discover new antibiotics.

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