Artificial intelligence

News articles classified as Artificial intelligence

Stanford HAI — May 3, 2023

Tech increases equity in diabetes care

Continuous glucose monitoring with AI-enabled remote support yields better outcomes for kids across the socioeconomic spectrum.

Stanford Law School — May 1, 2023

Large language models and the law

GPT-4 passed the Bar exam. What does that mean for the legal profession?

Stanford Medicine — April 26, 2023

Why won’t people take their statins?

Stanford Medicine researchers used AI to analyze online discussions related to the life-saving cholesterol drug and found a troubling amount of negativity and misinformation.

Stanford HAI — April 25, 2023

Will AI make workers more productive?

An AI assistant made new call center employees more productive and empathetic with customers, but offered few benefits for more experienced workers.

Stanford HAI — April 24, 2023

Dance it out

A new generative AI model can choreograph human dance animation to match any piece of music.

April 12, 2023

Advances in generalizable medical AI

Stanford researchers lay out a framework for engineers as they expand and build new medical artificial intelligence models.

Stanford HAI — April 4, 2023

AI benchmarks hit saturation

According to most of the technical performance benchmarks we have today, it’s nearly perfect. That probably means it’s time for new benchmarks, Vanessa Parli argues.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence — April 3, 2023

The state of AI in 14 charts

A scaling up of large language models, the environmental costs of training them, increasing ethical scrutiny, and more are visualized in this snapshot of the 2023 AI Index.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence — March 20, 2023

Four takeaways from the latest AI chatbot releases

As new and more capable foundation models are released, questions around transparency loom large.

Stanford HAI — March 17, 2023

‘More human than human’

People can only accurately identify AI writers about 50% of the time. This is why.

Stanford Engineering — March 16, 2023

60 years of artificial intelligence at Stanford

Entering its seventh decade of innovation in all things artificial intelligence, Stanford reflects on the people who made it possible and the milestones along the way.

Stanford Engineering — March 14, 2023

The future of computational health economics

Our system of medical reimbursements is badly broken. Sherri Rose explains how she and others are using AI to fix it.

Stanford HAI — March 14, 2023

AI will transform teaching and learning. Let’s get it right

At the recent AI+Education Summit, Stanford researchers, students, and industry leaders discussed both the potential of AI to transform education for the better and the risks at play.

Stanford HAI — March 1, 2023

AI’s powers of political persuasion

Researchers tested AI’s ability to sway people on controversial political topics. The results are a cautionary tale.

March 1, 2023

AI offers ‘paradigm shift’ in study of brain injury

By helping researchers choose among thousands of available computational models of mechanical stress on the brain, AI is yielding powerful new insight on traumatic brain injury.

Stanford HAI — February 14, 2023

Human writer or AI? Scholars build a detection tool

DetectGPT can tell with up to 95% accuracy whether that essay was written by a large language model or a human.

February 13, 2023

How will ChatGPT change the way we think and work?

We need to think about the human aspect of using AI in our everyday lives and how it will influence the ways in which we perceive and interact with one another, says communication scholar Jeff Hancock.

Stanford HAI — February 3, 2023

AI makes it easier to predict rare diseases

A new model combs a wealth of patient data from demographic information to lab test results to better predict the probability of diseases for which data are sparse.

January 30, 2023

AI predicts global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees in 2030s

Artificial intelligence provides new evidence our planet will cross the global warming threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius within 10 to 15 years. Even with low emissions, we could see 2 C of warming. But a future with less warming remains within reach.

Stanford Graduate School of Education — January 5, 2023

What ChatGPT means for education

Faculty from the Stanford Accelerator for Learning discuss how the new chatbot could change teaching and learning.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence — January 4, 2023

Can we improve psychotherapy by quantifying therapists’ language?

Stanford researchers have created a set of open-source tools to measure therapists’ timing, responsiveness, and consistency to better understand what works.

Stanford HAI — December 16, 2022

What to expect in 2023 in AI

This year’s biggest headline might have been generative AI, but what should we expect from the field in 2023? Four Stanford HAI faculty predict the biggest advances, opportunities, and challenges for the coming year.

Stanford HAI — November 29, 2022

Could stable diffusion solve a gap in medical imaging data?

Researchers trained an AI model to create images of human lungs with rare abnormalities, which could alleviate gaps in training data and inspire more research.

November 16, 2022

Solar panels largely confined to wealthy Americans

Tax rebates for installing residential solar power have done little to spur adoption in low-income communities in the United States, while a less common incentive seems to succeed, according to new research using AI and satellite images.

Stanford HAI — November 9, 2022

Is this a deer I see? Socially aware AI adapts by asking questions of humans

When confronted with unfamiliar images, a new, socially savvy AI agent trains itself by engaging humans to answer questions.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence — October 25, 2022

Children’s internet safety law will change the web for adults

HAI Privacy and Data Policy Fellow Jennifer King discusses how a new California law designed to protect kids online could affect adult audiences, too.

October 12, 2022

Exoskeleton makes walking faster, less tiring

After years of careful development, engineers have created a boot-like exoskeleton that increases walking speed and reduces effort outside of the lab.

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence — August 1, 2022

How have attitudes toward U.S. immigration changed?

Using AI, scholars track political speech on immigration over decades to find more positive attitudes than at any point in history, but with more partisan divide.

Stanford Earth — July 5, 2022

An AI solution to climate models’ gravity wave problem

Stanford scientists are among a growing number of researchers harnessing artificial intelligence techniques to bring more realistic representations of ubiquitous atmospheric ripples into global climate models.

June 20, 2022

Next-gen battery solutions

A new mathematical model has brought together the physics and chemistry of highly promising lithium-metal batteries, providing researchers with plausible, fresh solutions to a problem known to cause degradation and failure.