WARF and the Data Science Institute hosted MadPrompts 2024—a generative AI prompt battle—on October 18 at the Discovery Building. This year’s event featured four competitors from different academic disciplines using generative AI tools to create detailed images, and it introduced a new AI video showcase.
Year: 2024
Faces of Data Science: Damon Smith
Smith uses machine learning and AI to create models that capture extensive data about how crop diseases might spread and build forecasting tools for farmers.
How Wet is America’s Soil? Nobody Really Knows, But AI Can Help
Scientists in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences are leveraging artificial intelligence to map soil moisture across the country. It’s a possible game changer for farmers and a boon for climate models and wildfire forecasts.
UW–Madison Researchers Find Persistent Problems with AI-Assisted Genomic Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are warning that artificial intelligence tools gaining popularity in the fields of genetics and medicine can lead to flawed conclusions about the connection between genes and physical characteristics, including risk factors for diseases like diabetes.
Third-Annual Sustainability Symposium Highlights the AI in Sustainability
The RISE Initiative inspired the theme of this year’s Sustainability Symposium: AI and Sustainability. Dr. Sara Beery of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose work focuses on computer vision research for the environment, biodiversity, conservation, and sustainability, delivered the keynote address.
Sustainability Symposium
The UW–Madison Sustainability Symposium on 10/23 featured a keynote by Dr. Sara Beery on AI and sustainability.
MadPrompts
The 2nd annual MadPrompts prompt battle was part of the Wisconsin Science Festival on October 16.
New Paper Highlights the Promise of AI for Improving Cancer Care
Pallavi Tiwari and her colleagues are using AI to identify sex-specific risks associated with a lethal form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.
Sara Beery to Keynote Sustainability Symposium
Dr. Sara Beery, MIT, will speak on AI & Sustainability at the third annual UW–Madison Sustainability Symposium on October 23. Beery’s research focuses on building computer vision methods that enable global-scale environmental and biodiversity monitoring across data modalities.
How Open Source is Fostering Innovation in AI
The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and the Data Science Institute (DSI) hosted a panel discussion on How Open Source is Fostering Innovation in AI during Innovate Week, Thursday, September 26, 2024. The presentations and panel discussion explored the transformative role of open source technologies in advancing the AI landscape.