News
ChatGPT in the Humanities Panel: Researchers Share Concerns, Prospects of Artificial Intelligence in Academia
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A group of panelists discussed the role of ChatGPT in the humanities at a talk on Friday.
News
ChatGPT Generates Buzz Regarding Concerns of Academic Integrity
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Students, researchers and professors reflect on worries about ChatGPT’s effects on academia and ideas for adapting pedagogy.
Columns
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.
Columns
GUEST ROOM | Hail Cornell! Patron of Digital Sovereignty?
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Next I open my new textbook in the Cornell Store’s VitalSource page, a sort of digital archive that stores textbook purchases. Navigating to the chapter marked in my syllabus, eager and ready to learn, I’m interrupted by yet another pop-op: a cookies policy. Cookies are, as Emily Stewart at Vox puts it, “small files that websites send to your device that the sites then use to monitor you and remember certain information about you.” You’re probably familiar with the concept. A cookies permission request appears on basically every page from Forbes to, I don’t know, insert something salacious here.
News
Cornell Students Tackle Agricultural Challenges with Technology at In-Person Digital Agriculture Hackathon
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After two virtual years, Cornell’s Institute of Digital Agriculture’s annual hackathon returned in-person on Mar. 11-13, with diverse student teams tackling issues in agriculture through various projects.
Campus Accessibility
Variations in Technology Access Create Academic Uncertainty Among Students
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Cornell’s academic reliance on technology combined with limited tech resources continue to concern students after a return to in-person learning.
Science
AT&T Business CEO Anne Chow Reflects on Leadership, Discrimination as an Asian-American Woman
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As the first woman of color CEO of AT&T Business, Anne Chow B.S. ’88, M.Eng. ’89, MBA ’90 manages more than 30,000 employees and helps lead a $37 billion business group that serves customers worldwide. But alongside the daily challenges of being a CEO, it also means navigating gender and racial biases.
Arts & Culture
Coded Bias: A Panel Discussion in Review
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“Coded Bias” seeks to demystify the inner workings of technology and algorithms, allowing people to think critically about the role technology plays in their lives.
Arts & Culture
YANG | We Pause, Skip and Rewind. So What?
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It becomes increasingly challenging in the digital age to replicate the experience of getting into a zone at a movie theater.
Arts & Culture
YANG | Don’t Sleep on Podcasts
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The rapid emergence of podcasts is neither magic nor an accident. It is our reaction to the changes.