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Amid tables sprawled with empty Red Bull energy drinks and the rhythmic tapping of computer keyboards, over 1,200 of the brightest collegiate minds were hard at work during a 36-hour artificial intelligence, or AI, hackathon held at UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union building from June 17 to 18. 

Researchers from the Sky Computing lab and the Berkeley AI Research, or BAIR, Lab recently released Gorilla, a large language model, or LLM, designed to revolutionize the way AI algorithms function, according to Shishir Patil, campus computer science doctoral student and project lead.

What gets churned out by AI is inherently antithetical to art, so why do we labor to maintain that it might still have creative utility?

There will be workers on the inside who will necessarily have to be flexible with their employer’s corporate interests while pushing for change and innovation.

The Instructional Resilience and Enhancement Fee, or IREF, proposed by UC Berkeley administration to fund instructional technology was decreased from an annual cost of $264 to $212 following negotiations with the ASUC, the Graduate Assembly and the Committee on Student Fees.

Current ASUC Academic Affairs Vice President, or AAVP, James Weichert is running for reelection in the upcoming ASUC election, hoping to continue his work on academic student advocacy and equitable academic policies. 

Campus administration has proposed a $139 per semester fee to fund student technology, drawing criticism from ASUC officials who say the process is not transparent and that campus funds should be used instead. 

Even after working with tech professionals and recruiters to improve her resume, software engineer Angelina Lee received no calls back to interview. To investigate what she was missing, Lee created a false resume and applied to several companies to see if recruiters really even read them.

The University of California was awarded the 2021 Green Power Leadership Award on Tuesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at the Renewable Energy Markets Conference.

If we don’t want to continue to be UC Berkeley’s financial scapegoat, then it is up to us to reject any attempt to put the cost of the software on students.