SUNY Campuses will leverage Empire AI to increase research experiences, professional development, and other opportunities for SUNY students and faculty, furthering Governor Hochul's commitment to advancing AI usage for the public good.

Stony Brook University will partner with Farmingdale State and Suffolk County Community College to launch an eight-week research program.

Researchers have long recognised that for artificial intelligence to truly collaborate with people, it must accurately anticipate human intentions. Peter Zeng, Weiling Li, and Amie Paige, from Stony Brook University, alongside Zhengxiang Wang, Panagiotis Kaliosis, Dimitris Samaras et al, investigated how Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) establish ‘common ground’ during communication , a fundamental aspect of human interaction. Their new study, detailed in a referential communication experiment, reveals a significant limitation in LVLMs’ ability to interactively resolve ambiguous references, using a unique dataset of 356 human and machine dialogues. This work is crucial because it highlights a key deficit preventing seamless human-AI partnership and provides valuable resources , including data and analysis tools , for improving the modelling of shared understanding in AI systems.

The United States Army has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to enterprise browser developer HERE to build an artificial intelligence–based data interoperability layer for Army command-and-control systems. The project will be carried out in partnership with Stony Brook University, involving Dr. Manoj D. Mahajan, director of special programs at CEWIT, and Dr. Pawel Polak of Stony Brook’s AMS department.