Artificial Intelligence

A screenshot of a Replika chatbot screen.

What is real about human-AI relationships?

In a new paper, Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Arelí Rocha explores how people discuss their relationships with AI chatbots.

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AI uncovers new antibiotics in ancient microbes

César de la Fuente uses AI to hunt for new antibiotic candidates in unlikely places, from the DNA of extinct organisms to the proteins of ancient microbes.

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Chinmay Govind writing equations on a chalkboard.

Students use machine learning to track and protect whale populations

For their Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program project, Chinmay Govind and Nihar Ballamudi leveraged AI to locate and census whales. The study may inform policy measures that help to improve protections for whale populations worldwide.

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An MIT report that 95% of AI pilots fail spooked investors. But it’s the reason why those pilots failed that should make the C-suite anxious

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is referenced for his theory that the benefits of AI will come when companies abandon getting AI models to reflect existing processes.

C.E.O.s want their companies to adopt A.I. But do they get it themselves?

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says there is psychological resistance to using AI even for people who know they should be doing it.

A doctor with a virtual pen hovering over a hologram of a kidney.

Penn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create CellSpectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond.

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AI vision, reinvented: The power of synthetic data

Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI are using AI to create scientific figures, charts, and tables that teach other AI systems how to interpret complex visual information for open-source models.

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Morales-Navarro assists a student who holds a computer tablet

Building babyGPTs

How Penn’s Graduate School of Education and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia are redefining AI literacy for youth.

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Apple’s AI ambitions leave big questions over its climate goals

Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments about Apple’s AI ambitions.

The Internet is turning you into someone you’d hate IRL

A study co-authored by Stefano Puntoni of the Wharton School suggested that chatbots could curb loneliness as good as or more effectively than humans could.

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What is real about human-AI relationships?

AI uncovers new antibiotics in ancient microbes

Students use machine learning to track and protect whale populations

An MIT report that 95% of AI pilots fail spooked investors. But it’s the reason why those pilots failed that should make the C-suite anxious

C.E.O.s want their companies to adopt A.I. But do they get it themselves?

Penn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

AI vision, reinvented: The power of synthetic data

Building babyGPTs

Apple’s AI ambitions leave big questions over its climate goals

The Internet is turning you into someone you’d hate IRL