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Artificial intelligence

Benjamin Killeen, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins, works with AI-generated data
Artificial intelligence
AI data better than the real thing
Published March 20, 2023
Hopkins researchers find that algorithms trained on manufactured data can be even better than the real thing for important surgical tasks
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Innovative academics
Center for Digital Humanities connects human thought and computation
Published March 7, 2023
The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can't, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two
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Q+A
How AI can help combat climate change
Published March 7, 2023
Hopkins AI expert Jim Bellingham discusses potential uses of AI to track and mitigate the effects of climate change ahead of a March 15 presentation at the South by Southwest Conference
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Q+A
Can we trust AI?
Published March 6, 2023
From Alexa to a robot running amok in the movie 'M3GAN', artificial intelligence is part of everyday life and is capturing our imagination. Johns Hopkins AI expert Rama Chellappa helps us sort out fact from fiction, and whether we should embrace the 'AI spring'.
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Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT's implications for higher ed
Published Feb 20, 2023
As the new tech makes waves in education, scholars from Hopkins and UPenn discuss promising applications—and potential pitfalls
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Artificial Intelligence
Where is ChatGPT taking us? And do we want to follow?
Published Feb 9, 2023
Johns Hopkins computer scientist Daniel Khashabi discusses the pros and cons of the revolutionary natural-language processing tool—and predicts where it may head in the future
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Diversity+Inclusion
Workshop aids understanding of structural racism
Published Jan 18, 2023
Event explores how data science, machine learning can help our understanding of the effects of structural racism on health outcomes
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Innovative care
Aging well with AI: Hopkins AITC announces awardees of pilot research grants
Published Jan 10, 2023
Inaugural grant recipients hailing from academia, industry, and clinical practice will receive funding to develop new devices and other aging-related innovations
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Expert insights
The promise and peril of ChatGPT
Published Dec 16, 2022
The viral language-model artificial intelligence app recently released by OpenAI holds great promise and frightening potential, says Carey Business School expert Tinglong Dai
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Cancer research
Novel AI blood test detects liver cancer
Published Nov 21, 2022
The test, developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, aids in early detection of liver cancer—one of the leading causes of cancer deaths