California has passed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, requiring AI companies to publicize safety frameworks and transparency reports, and to report catastrophic risks and incidents, in order to promote responsible AI development.
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How CA water management shows tension between tech growth and the environment
A large data center can consume more water in a day than a city the size of San Luis Obispo, according to a report by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute. The California legislature passed a bill this year that would have required data centers in California to report their water usage on business reports. […]
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Cal Poly to build $3M AI Factory with NVIDIA partnership
Cal Poly is opening a $3 million AI Factory on campus, equipped with four NVIDIA supercomputing systems, to provide students and faculty with advanced computing resources to train artificial intelligence models and complete projects in days.
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Innovation at a price: The environmental cost of the Cal State’s new AI initiative
The Cal State AI initiative raises environmental concerns due to the high energy use, water consumption and lack of transparency from big tech companies.
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Letter to the Editor: AI is the future of education, so let’s use it well
The introduction of AI-powered tools has dramatically changed the way we work. Through subscriptions to Claude and ChatGPT, I feel like I have a personal assistant or a dedicated co-worker by my side at all times. I have become significantly more capable of tackling ambitious tasks and topics.
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CSU’s AI move feels less like innovation and more like overreach
The Cal State system is unjustly inserting itself in what should be a classroom-to-classroom dynamic. If professors want to encourage AI use for their assignments, great. If students decide on their own that the benefit is worth $20 a month, great. I believe it is not the Cal State’s place to provide these tools to students without meaningfully consulting faculty.
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Cal State system AI initiative sparks faculty concerns regarding privacy, lack of prior consultation
ChatGPT and other AI tools will soon be free for all Cal State students, faculty and staff, according to a system-wide email from the Cal State Office of the Chancellor on Monday.
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Cal Poly student-run project a ‘catalyst’ in finding missing persons
Cal Poly alumnus Christopher Young vividly remembers his first search and rescue mission on Nov. 5, 1984. Missing person Roberta “Bibi” Lee mysteriously disappeared, prompting Young and the Contra Costa Search and Rescue Unit to search Redwood Regional Park in Oakland Hills, CA. The search was not successful, and Lee’s body was found a month […]
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How students are utilizing ChatGPT: the upsides and the concerns
With the advent of new, easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) modules such as ChatGPT, or even the recently released chatbot on Snapchat, some students and professors are utilizing the program for academic purposes, like STEM research. However, there is a growing concern over it becoming a tool for academic dishonesty — forcing some to consider what […]
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Meet the students co-creating art with artificial intelligence
Students used artificial intelligence to generate original landscape pictures, a result of pitting two types of artificial neuron networks together — the generator and the classifier.
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Artificial Intelligence Software will judge this year’s startup competition
“It’s a more effective way to gauge the thoughts of a group,” second year business major Alistair Schwab said, who planned the event this year. “Typically you would take an average, but it’s more reflective of the judges as a whole.”