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Berkeley Talks: Jitendra Malik on the sensorimotor road to artificial intelligence
For a robot to have the ability to navigate specific terrain, like stepping stones or stairs, it needs some kind of vision system […]
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The overlooked accelerant for Thwaites Glacier ice loss
A new study suggests Thwaites Glacier’s main trunk is poised to widen in a way that could speed up ice loss within 20 years. The results underscore the importance of monitoring the glacier more closely to understand how much it will contribute to globa… […]
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SLAC’s Sadasivan Shankar on sustainable computing
How can we design computing systems that use less energy while still accomplishing everything we want them to do? […]
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Oil-sand wastewater triggered large Alberta earthquake
New research reveals wastewater injected underground by fossil fuel operators caused a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in November 2022 in the Peace River area of Alberta’s oil sands region. This is the first study to link seismicity in the area to human acti… […]
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From tort law to cheating, what is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?
Some have said machine-learning tools like ChatGPT will be the death knell to learning. Berkeley scholars say it’s more nuanced than that. […]
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60 years of artificial intelligence at Stanford
Entering its seventh decade of innovation in all things artificial intelligence, Stanford reflects on the people who made it possible and the milestones along the way. […]
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Making Sense of Scents
In a first, UCSF scientists created a molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant receptor. […]
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Branches and brackets
Imagining a situation where all the games in the NCAA basketball tournament have to be played sequentially in the same arena, mathematical geneticist Noah Rosenberg asks: In how many possible sequences can these games be played? […]
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AI lectures at Berkeley to explore possibilities, implications of ChatGPT
The series will feature talks by Berkeley alumnus John Schulman, primary architect of the ChatGPT platform, and six other leaders in the field of artificial intelligence […]
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STAT+: In Theranos’s backyard, a health tech leader takes another crack at better blood tests
In Theranos’s backyard, a health tech leader is taking another crack at home blood testing. He wants to make sure the process is bulletproof. […]
