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VandyGRAF hosting NASA astrophysicist Mohammad Safarzadeh to discuss AI applications to gravity waves
Feb. 15, 2023—Artificial Intelligence has become an indispensable tool in the field of gravitational wave research, helping scientists to make new discoveries and advancing our understanding of the universe. Researchers are now able to analyze vast amounts of data from gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO and Virgo, with much greater efficiency and accuracy. AI algorithms can...
AI in the Wild: How might AI reshape the work of Data Scientists
Feb. 15, 2023—Artificial Intelligence technology never stops advancing and even changing the way we do our jobs. Language models now have the ability to do hours worth of programing in seconds, and stable diffusion models give graphic designers a tool to generate any image they can imagine. Deep learning models, by their very nature, have limitless growth...
Understanding Text-to-Image Models workshop will be now be virtual on Monday, Feb. 27
Feb. 12, 2023—Stable diffusion models have been shown to have incredible success generating realistic images. Models like DALL-E have shown the power to generate brand-new photo-realistic scenes, in addition to mimicking and transferring an art style onto existing photos. These models can be used in a variety of ways and experimentation with them can be easy. However,...
DSI helping students create AI-generated love poems at event ahead of Valentines day
Jan. 25, 2023—The revolutionary ChatGPT program has shown the world the power of AI transformers. From essays to screenplays, the work generated by ChatGPT is hard to distinguish from something written by an actual person, even something as personal as a love poem. The Data Science Institute will be on hand Friday, Feb. 10, at Rand Lounge...
AI Deep Dive on Jan. 27: Using deep learning to improve bridge structure monitoring and inspections
Jan. 23, 2023—More than one-third of all the bridges in America are in disrepair, according to a 2022 report. It is one of the greatest infrastructure issues facing the U.S. today. Barge Design Solutions joins the Data Science Institute for this week’s AI Deep Dive to discuss a possible collaborative effort and to see how data science...
Using deep learning to improve dialogic questioning for new readers: AI Deep Dive Jan. 13
Jan. 10, 2023—Professor of Psychology Dr. Georgene Troseth has researched for years how artificial intelligence could help parents use dialogic questioning when reading with their children. Advances in data science could now make Dr. Troseth’s vision a reality. The project aims to create a model that could scan through a book parents are reading with their children...
Detecting Colliding Black Holes: AI Deep Dive Dec. 2
Nov. 14, 2022—Cosmic cataclysmic events such as the collision of black holes create strong gravitational waves which can be detected on Earth. Instruments such as LIGO can detect distortions of space that herald the passing of these gravity waves, but analyzing these signals is a computationally-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Can AI offer a solution to speed discovery,...
AI Deep Dive Nov 11: State-of-the-art Audio Models – Speech to Text, but what else?
Nov. 7, 2022—Whisper is OpenAI’s new addition to the growing portfolio of open source artificial intelligence (AI) models for speech-to-text and audio processing. Capable of predicting audio text captions, the model leverages intermixed with special tokens which enables the single model to perform tasks such as language identification, phrase-level timestamps, multilingual speech transcription, and to-English speech translation....
AI Deep Dive Nov 4: Using Large Language AI Models to Support Language Instruction
Oct. 20, 2022—Multilingual large language models have demonstrated strong performance in natural language processing tasks. In this discussion, we explore how these transformer-based models might be used to support language instruction. In the current case study, we’ll examine possible uses of these models to support instruction in Hindi. Might these models be able to: Identify the core...
AI Deep Dive: Exploring the Narrative Arc
Oct. 7, 2022—When reading a longer document, such as a novel, your interpretation of the text you are currently reading is informed by what’s come before. Your attention to particular details, wording, or ideas; whether you perceive an action in a positive or negative light; what you think about a particular character. Currently, transformer-based Large Language Models...