The Center for Fiction on Lafayette Avenue hosted a lecture on artificial intelligence and literature on Thursday. The event featured author and visiting researcher at Columbia University Dashiel Carrera, English professor at the University of Virginia Bruce Holsinger, and Tuhin Chakrabarty, assistant professor of computer science at Stony Brook University. The lecture was moderated by guest Maris Kreizman, author of “I Want to Burn This Place Down” and columnist for Literary Hub.

Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day.

Some senior veterans on Long Island are travelling the world again without leaving their nursing home. Virtual reality is giving them adventures they thought were behind them, while also helping reduce stress and isolation.

The Department of Energy has launched a national initiative to double the pace of scientific discovery in the next decade. The Genesis Mission set the stage for a recent DOE summit that brought together university and science philanthropy leaders to begin developing a vision for success for the Genesis Mission and its academic partners. The summit underscored the indispensable role that research universities play as hubs for cutting-edge AI research and for developing the future workforce.