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Artificial Intelligence Revs Up Evolution’s Clock

When Risto Miikkulainen and Padmini Rajagopalan simulated hyenas forming mobs to steal prey from lions, they found something surprising.

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UT News

UT Austin Selected as Home of National AI Institute Focused on Machine Learning

The National Science Foundation has selected UT Austin to lead the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning.

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Podcast

The Next 50 Years: An A.I. Designed to Make Life Better

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. But will AI have mostly positive or negative impacts on society?

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Features

Joydeep Biswas Builds Robots to Navigate the Real World

Joydeep Biswas leads the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory (AMRL) at UT

Robotic car

Department of Computer Science

Building Industry Bridges: Computer Scientist Tackles New Role for Sony, While Leading at UT

Peter Stone, professor and head of Texas Robotics, will lead the newly established Sony AI in the United States.

Peter Stone has been tapped by Sony Corp. to head up the U.S. branch of its new global artificial intelligence research division, called Sony AI.

Announcements

UT Austin Launches Institute to Harness the Data Revolution

$1.5M award from National Science Foundation to support cross-disciplinary machine learning and data science research

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Podcast

New AI Sees Like a Human, Filling in the Blanks

An artificial intelligence agent that can glance quickly at parts of a new environment and infer the full scene might be more effective on dangerous...

Silhouettes of a human and a robot looking at a painting in a museum

Podcast

A Machine That Understands Language Like a Human

Alex Huth is trying to build an intelligent computer system that can predict the patterns of brain activity in a human listening to someone speaking.

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Podcast

Can We Build Machines that are Less Biased Than We Are?

Think about some of the most important decisions people make – who to hire for a job, which kind of treatment to give a cancer...

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Research

Could a Digital Version of this Part of the Brain Be Coming Soon?

Michael Mauk and his team have made a discovery that adds an important detail to a computer simulation of the part of our brains called...

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