Artificial Intelligence

UC Berkeley associate professor of health policy and management Dr. Ziad Obermeyer was named to the 2023 TIME100 AI list, the media company’s annual award for top professionals in the artificial intelligence sector.

Rahsaan Thomas wrote, directed and produced a film while incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison. His documentary, “Friendly Signs,” places viewers in the world of those who are deaf and incarcerated.

On July 27, UC Berkeley professor Alison Gopnik was making a speech over Zoom to leading cognitive scientists from all over the world, accepting the Rumelhart Prize.

On May 2, members of the Writers Guild of America, or WGA, dropped their pens and walked out of their writers’ rooms in pursuit of better wages.

Adapting to work with AI should not be a punishment; rather, it should develop the way we perceive technology’s place in the classroom. 

I acknowledge that at times, it is not the most practical tool, as it does not fully comprehend human nuisances and simply cannot understand certain instructions. However, I have found a few beneficial ways to make use of it. So, here is a brief overview of some of the useful ways I’ve been able to employ my Snapchat AI. 

I've decided I want someone to think for me for once, so that maybe I won’t stay stuck in the rut of my current thoughts. And it doesn’t really matter to me if that someone is actually some … thing.

The Daily Californian sat down to interview Coye Cheshire, a sociological social psychologist and professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

Here is an account of some other helpful, mostly free, artificial intelligence technologies, from their fictional, personified points of view.