Artificial Intelligence

Founders of Nomad Theatre Company preview an upcoming event happening this weekend featuring AI-generated performance prompts.

Amy Kurzweil's graphic memoir "Artificial: A Love Story" centers around a chatbot built with her father, inventor Ray Kurzweil, to "talk" to her late grandfather. Kurzweil gave Wednesday's keynote at the AI and the Humanities conference at ISU.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, who represents parts of Bloomington-Normal, is set to begin his second term in Washington. The second term is likely to look much different under the incoming Trump administration.

Twin Cities native Shashi Salavath is the youngest person to ever present research at the International Conference on Computational Science. He is a rising senior at Illinois Math and Science Academy.

Aondover Tarhule, who became ISU's 21st president last month after a year in the interim role, said the university is grappling with ongoing delays in the student aid award process, as well as responding to the prevalence of artificial intelligence tech and a looming drop in graduating high school seniors.

Shashi Salavath attended a rigorous pre-college research team with classmates from the Illinois Math and Science Academy. He worked on projects exploring the use of AI in deep sea submersibles and drone swarms.

Roy Magnuson and others will steer ISU through generative AI's uncharted waters. On the surface, AI presents a dangerously easy new option for cheating. But the upsides are easy to see too.

Two professors at Heartland Community College have received grants from online learning platform Course Hero to study educational technology.

Could artificial intelligence be part of the equation to solving the problem of emergency department overcrowding? That's what OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois are working together to find out.

Illinois State University provost Aondover Tarhule says faculty are discouraged from allowing students to use the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT as part of their coursework.