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Episode Synopsis
Question: Do you use ChatGPT or another AI program?
Meet Barrie Robison (go.uidaho.edu/3E34kvn), a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/4kwcihb) and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/43TLX6C) at University of Idaho. Artificial intelligence seems to be infiltrating all aspects of our lives. Robison will discuss the ways U of I is supporting its researchers, including a story of translating old educational texts, and how he hopes his team can improve how the university is run.
Visit our website uidaho.edu/vandaltheory. Email us at [email protected]. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu.
Time stamps
(0:00) Introduction
(1:02) Have you used AI?
(2:07) Meet Barrie Robison
(4:34) What is AI?
(7:49) What assumptions do people make about AI?
(9:17) Translating a German cello book
(13:42) AI for research administration
(19:07) Finding a professor
(23:36) Making the arts searchable
(26:53) U of I on the AI frontier
Music
“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (go.uidaho.edu/3U3MNHs) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (go.uidaho.edu/3Q6LeY5).
“Andromeda Spiral” by Matthew Robert Mateau and Jeremy Robert Chatelain (go.uidaho.edu/42eqUdI) via Amphibious Zoo music.
Meet Barrie Robison (go.uidaho.edu/3E34kvn), a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/4kwcihb) and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/43TLX6C) at University of Idaho. Artificial intelligence seems to be infiltrating all aspects of our lives. Robison will discuss the ways U of I is supporting its researchers, including a story of translating old educational texts, and how he hopes his team can improve how the university is run.
Visit our website uidaho.edu/vandaltheory. Email us at [email protected]. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu.
Time stamps
(0:00) Introduction
(1:02) Have you used AI?
(2:07) Meet Barrie Robison
(4:34) What is AI?
(7:49) What assumptions do people make about AI?
(9:17) Translating a German cello book
(13:42) AI for research administration
(19:07) Finding a professor
(23:36) Making the arts searchable
(26:53) U of I on the AI frontier
Music
“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (go.uidaho.edu/3U3MNHs) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (go.uidaho.edu/3Q6LeY5).
“Andromeda Spiral” by Matthew Robert Mateau and Jeremy Robert Chatelain (go.uidaho.edu/42eqUdI) via Amphibious Zoo music.
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