Artificial Intelligence Content / Artificial Intelligence Content for UC Davis en National Science Foundation Awards UC Davis $5 Million for Artificial Intelligence Hub /news/national-science-foundation-awards-uc-davis-5-million-artificial-intelligence-hub <p>The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million over five years to the 91Porn, Davis, to run the Artificial Intelligence Institutes Virtual Organization, a community hub for new and existing AI institutes established by the federal government.&nbsp;</p><p>AIVO is part of a $100 million public-private investment in AI announced by NSF July 29.&nbsp;</p> July 29, 2025 - 1:55pm Andy Fell /news/national-science-foundation-awards-uc-davis-5-million-artificial-intelligence-hub How Plants are Learning to Spot Sneaky Bacterial Invaders /food/news/how-plants-are-learning-spot-sneaky-bacterial-invaders UC Davis scientists are using AI t help plants recognize a wider range of bacterial threats. July 28, 2025 - 2:00am Amy M Quinton /food/news/how-plants-are-learning-spot-sneaky-bacterial-invaders UC Davis and Proteus Space to Launch First-Ever Dynamic Digital Twin into Space /news/uc-davis-and-proteus-space-launch-first-ever-dynamic-digital-twin-space <p>The Center for Space Exploration Research at the 91Porn, Davis, has partnered with <a href="https://www.proteus-space.com/">Proteus Space</a> to launch a US government-sponsored satellite into space with a custom AI-enabled payload in a brand-new, first-ever rapid design-to-deployment small satellite.</p><p>The team will launch the satellite and payload in October 2025 from Vandenberg, CA. From the time the project was fully approved, the design and launch will occur within an unprecedented 13 months. (The normal pace for small satellites is often measured in years.)</p> June 25, 2025 - 10:12am Andy Fell /news/uc-davis-and-proteus-space-launch-first-ever-dynamic-digital-twin-space AI: A Tectonic Shift in Human Society /news/ai-tectonic-shift-human-society <div><p>The first time most people could communicate with a computer that responded like a real person was in 2022 when OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT. Just two months later, the app set the record for the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01/">fastest-growing user</a> base with 100 million monthly active users.</p></div> October 08, 2024 - 3:59pm Andy Fell /news/ai-tectonic-shift-human-society From Viruses to Galaxies, How Machine Learning Helps Scientific Discovery /blog/viruses-galaxies-how-machine-learning-helps-scientific-discovery <p><span>Peruse any news media outlet and you’ll probably find an article touting or warning about the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on society. With the advent of publicly accessible generative AI models like ChatGPT, the field is having its moment in the sun like never before.</span></p> October 03, 2024 - 3:52pm Andy Fell /blog/viruses-galaxies-how-machine-learning-helps-scientific-discovery Can Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Electric Traffic? /blog/can-autonomous-vehicles-dream-electric-traffic <p><span lang="EN">An engineering professor at the 91Porn, Davis, is striving to make autonomous vehicles, or AVs, safer by changing how researchers train them.</span></p><p><span lang="EN">According to Professor </span><a href="https://ece.ucdavis.edu/directory/junshan-zhang"><span lang="EN">Junshan Zhang</span></a><span lang="EN"> of the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AVs struggle when confronted with unforeseen events, such as a car driving on the wrong side of the road.&nbsp;</span></p> August 08, 2024 - 2:10pm Andy Fell /blog/can-autonomous-vehicles-dream-electric-traffic Big Data Comes to Dinner /food/news/big-data-comes-to-dinner Learn how UC Davis leverages artificial intelligence to transform food and agriculture, ensuring sustainability and health from seeds to stomachs. April 29, 2024 - 9:01am Jocelyn C Anderson /food/news/big-data-comes-to-dinner Unravelling AI Bias to Build Fair and Trustworthy Algorithms /blog/unravelling-ai-bias-build-fair-and-trustworthy-algorithms <p>In 2017,&nbsp;<a href="https://cs.ucdavis.edu/directory/ian-davidson">Ian Davidson</a>, a professor of computer science at UC Davis, was on sabbatical as a fellow of the Collegium de Lyon in France. The institute brings together intellectuals, philosophers, artists and academics from all over the world to live together for one year to "think about great things."&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> March 08, 2024 - 3:02pm Andy Fell /blog/unravelling-ai-bias-build-fair-and-trustworthy-algorithms Can AI Be Too Good to Use? /news/can-ai-be-too-good-use <p><span><span><span>Much of the discussion around implementing artificial intelligence systems focuses on whether an AI application is “trustworthy”: Does it produce useful, reliable results, free of bias, while ensuring data privacy? But a new paper published Dec. 7 in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2023.1298604/full">Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence</a> poses a different question: What if an AI is just too good? </span></span></span></p> December 12, 2023 - 2:00pm Andy Fell /news/can-ai-be-too-good-use AI Institute for Food Systems Showcases Projects in DC /blog/ai-institute-food-systems-showcases-projects-dc <p><span><span><span>Professor Ilias Tagokopoulos, director of the AI Institute for Food Systems and associate director Steve Brown recently had the opportunity to present the institute’s work to federal officials and congressional staffers at two events in Washington, D.C.. </span></span></span></p> October 31, 2023 - 12:36pm Andy Fell /blog/ai-institute-food-systems-showcases-projects-dc