News
New ChatGPT Competitor Generates Debate Over Ethics, Benefits
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Students discuss the benefits, drawbacks and fears of new AI technologies.
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KUBINEC | Dear Professors: Stop Banning ChatGPT
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The reviews are in. Professors really hate ChatGPT.
During syllabus week, I asked my friends what their professors were saying about ChatGPT, and the vibes were decidedly bad. “A word to the wise: DO NOT BE TEMPTED by Open AI platforms such as ChatGPT,” reads the syllabus of Archaeology and the Bible. “Do not rely on ChatGPT to complete this assignment,” said an Introduction to Global Health assignment description.
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WEIRENS | Artificial Intelligence at Cornell: The Potential and Pitfalls
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Chat AI, recently released in November 2022, is a large language model that provides highly detailed responses to almost any prompt of your imagination (given that it’s appropriate). Once I got past the initial disbelief of Chat AI’s capabilities, I quickly became fascinated. A couple of minutes of playing with it made me realize that Chat AI is no Siri.
Science
Cornell Researchers Build Miniature Camera to Track Full-Body Movement
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The SciFi Lab at Cornell has made a breakthrough by creating a miniature wristband camera, BodyTrak, which could play a role in changing the way self-tracking devices such as smartwatches are built in the future.
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CHEN | Could AI Really Take Over the World?
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The Artificial Intelligence of Hollywood has gotten everyone worried about a future run by robots. However, there are many aspects of our day-to-day interactions that AI is, as of yet, incapable of mirroring. Emotion, morality and personality are things not easily reduced to the positive and negative values of code. We’re safe for now.
Money & Business
Big Tech Curbs Police Use of Facial Recognition Systems Due to Racial Biases
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“A lot of these algorithms that have been developed, whether they are in healthcare or policing or visual recognition, are basically including the biases of the people who develop them,” Okolo said.
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GUEST ROOM | Unlearning Machine Bias
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It’s July 17, 2014, and as Eric Garner is killed by the police, his final words are, “I can’t breathe.”
It’s April 12, 2018, and a barista calls the cops on two black men waiting patiently for a friend in a Starbucks. It’s August 4, 2025, and the Chicago Police Department, now relying heavily on facial recognition artificial intelligence software, wrongly identifies and arrests Barack Obama. While that last example may be a hypothetical, we’ve already seen the damaging ramifications of biased A.I. technology. Courts in Broward County, Florida, currently use risk assessment A.I. to predict whether the defendant of a petty crime is likely to commit more serious crimes in the future. This software wrongly labels black defendants almost twice as often as it does white defendants.
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Pollack Makes Official Visit to Korea, Emphasizes Importance of Liberal Arts
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“During this first year of my presidency, I felt it was important for me to get to know Cornell’s worldwide alumni body, not just when they visit our campuses, but also in key locations around the world,” Pollack said in an interview with Korea JoongAng Daily.
AI
MALPASS | A.I. : Benefit or Hazard?
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For decades, pop culture has been fascinated by robot servants. It always seemed so far off, having a robotic servant to help in our day to day lives. Look at the Jetsons, they needed to have stratosphere, saucer houses before they had a robot maid. It makes it strange to think that we now live in a society where robotics not only exist, but are the norm. I’m not talking about independent, Turing Test beating automata, but increasingly intelligent machines are finding their way into day-to-day life.