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$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program
9/24/24 Pratt School of Engineering

$25 Million Gift to Establish New STEM+ Scholars Program

The Karsh STEM+ Scholars Program will match undergraduate students who have declared majors in disciplines in the natural sciences, engineering, and STEM-related fields with faculty in the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.

Xiang Cheng
Xiang Cheng: Using Geometry to Push AI’s Boundaries
9/19/24 Pratt School of Engineering

Xiang Cheng: Using Geometry to Push AI’s Boundaries

New faculty member Xiang Cheng exploits geometric patterns in data and algorithms to find better ways to train advanced AI programs

Shaundra B. Daily of Duke University
Duke Trailblazer: Shaundra Daily
9/9/24 Duke Centennial

Duke Trailblazer: Shaundra Daily

For Shaundra Daily, helping to create a more equitable STEM education system is an important part of her work

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“Model Collapse” Threatens to Kill Progress on Generative AIs
9/4/24 Freethink

“Model Collapse” Threatens to Kill Progress on Generative AIs

Emily Wenger explains that if you feed an AI its own dog images enough times, errors in those images will eventually prevent it from being able to produce images that look like dogs at all.