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Venture Café Providence to host panel, debate on AI’s societal impacts

Technology 06/27/2023

PROVIDENCE – As artificial intelligence dominates headlines across industries, an upcoming panel held by Venture Café Providence in partnership with RIHub will explore potential benefits and...

Here’s how AI can be bad for the environment

Advice 06/09/2023

Generative AI is the hot new technology behind chatbots and image generators. But how hot is it making the planet? As an AI researcher, I often...

Regulators take aim at AI to protect consumers and workers

Economy 05/26/2023

NEW YORK (AP) – As concerns grow over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the nation's financial watchdog says it's working to ensure...

AI offers R.I. a chance at new revolution

Advice 05/26/2023

You don’t need to look far to see daily new developments and news around artificial intelligence, from ChatGPT to AI image generators. Rhode Island has...

BLURRED LINES: Monica Linden, a senior lecturer of neuroscience at Brown University, doesn’t bar the use of ChatGPT by her students outright but says they can use the artificial intelligence program to generate ideas and develop different perspectives on topics.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Higher ed in R.I. grapples with the use of ChatGPT

Education 04/28/2023

When Monica Linden, a senior lecturer of neuroscience at Brown University, enlisted ChatGPT to write a portion of a class syllabus, there was some...

DATA CENTER: Ocean State Job Lot Chief Information Officer Hisham Aharon, left, and Chief Financial Officer John Conforti inspect the computer servers that power the retailer’s technology, including the artificial intelligence software it uses.  PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

From design to contracts, companies embrace AI tools

Focus 04/28/2023

Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and poems or conjure new images on command, chances are the companies...

Used carefully, AI bots have their use in HR

Advice 04/14/2023

Artificial intelligence bots are becoming increasingly popular across the internet. One of the most well-known AI bots is OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has caught the...

In the future, higher ed will have fewer professors

Commentary 10/29/2021

At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage. Meanwhile, at a Southern university,...

The AI potential

Advice 10/18/2019

It seems like artificial intelligence is taking over the world, leaving many of us non-techies feeling terrified. Yet when you stop to think about it,...