Artificial Intelligence

‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds

UC IT Blog April 13, 2022 All ArticlesAI, Artificial Intelligence, bias, Imaging, UC Berkeley, UCB 0

By Marni Ellerry. Significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past decade have relied upon extensive training of algorithms using massive, open-source databases. But when such datasets are used “off label” and applied in unintended ways, the results are…
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Computers in a Jazz Ensemble? Inventing Improvisational AI

UC IT Blog February 23, 2022 All ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, improvisational jazz, Project REACH, Shlomo Dubnov, UCSD, University of California San Diego 0

UC San Diego Professor Shlomo Dubnov is among the researchers who will benefit from a European Research Council Advanced Grant to teach computers how to improvise, musically.

By Josh Baxt. Go to any jazz club and watch the musicians. Their performances are dynamic and improvisational; they’re inventing as they go along, having entire conversations through their instruments. Can we give computers the same capabilities? To answer that…
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Paging Doctor Robot?

UC IT Blog February 2, 2022 All ArticlesAI, Artificial Intelligence, chatbots, Information Technology, Joseph B. Walther, medicine, professor, robotics, telehealth, UC Santa Babara, UCSB 0

By Shelley Leachman. Much like a family physician who has treated you for years, computer systems could — hypothetically — know a patient’s complete medical history. A more common experience, of course, is seeing a new doctor or a specialist…
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UC Develops Principles to Guide Use of AI

UC IT Blog January 26, 2022 All ArticlesAI governance, Artificial Intelligence, Brandie Nonnecke, CITRIS, CITRIS Policy Lab, Dr. Michael V. Drake, Janet Napolitano, UC Berkeley, UC President, UC Presidential Working Group on AI 0

A group of students work together with laptops at UC Berkeley

By Brandie Nonnecke, Ph.D. Faced with tightening budgets and staffing constraints, public universities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. As such, AI-enabled tools are beginning to take on a central…
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New AI Strategy Enables Robots to Rapidly Adapt to Real-world Environments

UC IT Blog October 6, 2021 All ArticlesA.I., adapt, Artificial Intelligence, Rapid Motor Adaptation, RMA, robot, Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley, UCB 0

By Sarah Yang. Delivery services may be able to overcome snow, rain, heat and the gloom of night, but a new class of legged robots is not far behind. Artificial intelligence algorithms developed by a team of researchers from UC…
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AI for More Efficient Flying Qubits

UC IT Blog August 4, 2021 All ArticlesArtificial Intelligence, Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences, Jon Bashor, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, qubits, Supercomputer 0

In order to use existing optical network fibers such as these, qubits (quantum bits) need to be efficiently converted to "flying qubits." (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

By Jon Bashor. As quantum computers evolve from theory to functioning machines and begin solving problems beyond the capabilities of even the fastest supercomputers, finding a way to link these powerful new systems to communicate with other quantum machines becomes…
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