Artificial Intelligence News Feed

The Internet has a Dark Side – Can We Teach Machines How to Identify it?
ISI researchers are developing technology that can detect logical fallacies in AI and classify hate speech in internet memes

Putting the Rational Thinking Skills of Language Models to the Test
Can language models be trusted to reason like humans do? Are they good at making decisions? These researchers set off to find out.

Can AI Teach Your Child Perseverance?
Postdoc Scholar Emmanuel Johnson is part of a team receiving a $20M National Science Foundation grant to research AI-augmented learning.

New Twitter, Now With More Hate
A USC computer scientist and his team have found that in less than six months, hate speech has significantly increased on Twitter.

The Quiet Revolution of AI on the Edge
AI is running on mobile phones, sensors, and home appliances thanks to the engineering innovations that make the most of the limited memory, reduced computational power, and little energy available in these devices.

“Attention Is All You Need”: USC Alumni Paved Path for ChatGPT
From “eureka moment” to deployment, USC Viterbi alumni played a key role in the development of ChatGPT

Making a Computer Observe Like a Human
USC ISI Research team combines multiple types of machine learning techniques to improve how a program can identify people and things

ISI Names Two New Fellows
Researchers Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil have received USC Viterbi’s Information Sciences Institute’s highest honor.

USC Wins DARPA Map Feature Extraction Challenge
A joint team between USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute and the University of Minnesota won first place in part of the DARPA AI for Critical Mineral Assessment Competition

How Old Is Your Brain? Ask All The Hospitals
Researchers at USC’s Information Sciences Institute are proposing an artificial intelligence system that addresses several of the machine learning challenges in the medical space.