UB’s Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics signed a letter asking congress to fully fund the National Institute of Standards and Technology budget request for AI-related work in the upcoming fiscal year.
Unilad quoted Siwei Lyu, from a previous article in USA Today, in a story on how Kim Kardashian has been accused of using AI to help promote a new product.
The Conversation published an article co-authored by Siwei Lyu and computer science and engineering PhD candidate Yan Ju about methods to improve deepfake detection.
TechBuffalo reported on Holliday Sims who spoke at the Women in Tech WNY event about her plans to pursue her doctorate at UB in engineering education and to continue using AI for the good of society.
Rappler reposted an article authored by Siwei Lyu and Yan Ju, a CSE PhD candidate, about how deepfake detection programs improve when they use algorithms that account for demographic diversity.
MSN News reposted an article from Tech Xplore that reported on a study conducted by Wenyao Xu and researchers from Columbia University that is challenging the assumption that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unmatchable.
The Markup quoted Siwei Lyu in a report on the rise of deepfakes in politics, highlighting recent instances like the fake robocall impersonating Joe Biden during the primary elections.
ABC News quoted Tevfik Kosar in an article reporting that the increasing demand for data centers has raised concerns about escalating energy consumption and its impact on carbon emissions.
