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Future of Work will be yearlong theme at UMSI

09/16/2024

Through courses and events, the UMSI community will focus on topics like AI in the workplace, remote work, and the role of unions, aiming to create solutions for work’s evolving future.

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UMSI Professor Kentaro Toyama was featured by The Conversation.

AI is here – and everywhere: 3 AI researchers look to the challenges ahead in 2024

01/03/2024

UMSI professor Kentaro Toyama joins a panel of AI scholars to look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, and to give their hopes and recommendations.

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Three AI experts on how access to ChatGPT-style tech is about to change our world – podcast

03/03/2023

"Technology amplifies underlying human forces. And in our current world, those human forces are aligned in a way that the rich get richer and inequality keeps growing.”

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5 information experts look at where the trends are taking us

02/21/2023

Experts at the University of Michigan School of Information share trends they’re seeing in the information world and what they could mean for the rest of us.

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AI and the future of work: What ChatGPT, DALL-E and other AI tools mean for artists and knowledge workers

01/11/2023

In an essay for The Conversation, Professor Kentaro Toyama contemplates how human intelligence and creativity may be valued when machines become smarter and more creative than the brightest people.

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New tools may serve as virtual tutors for students in coding classes

08/07/2019

Getting help in programming courses outside of instructors’ office hours can be difficult, but a new tool called “chat.codes” may help change that.

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