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Artificial intelligence programs come into the world as a stream of code, knowing nothing, without experience and without capabilities – they must be programmed to understand innate human traits. “A robot needs to be able to communicate with the world,” says Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science at the Purdue University College of Science and an AI expert. “Human brains learn through experience and by extrapolating their experiences to new situations. Our brain learns that traits are transferable. Machine learning models currently do not do this. That is the gap we want to address.”

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Imagine simply saying to your car, “I’m in a hurry,” and it automatically takes you to where you need to go via the most efficient route. Engineers at Purdue University have discovered that an autonomous vehicle can do this using ChatGPT or other chatbots powered by artificial intelligence algorithms called large language models. Ziran Wang, an assistant professor at Purdue’s Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering who led the research, believes that to one day be fully autonomous, vehicles will need to understand everything their passengers control, even if that command is implicit .

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This week, a collection of 74 bronze sculptures by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas was opened to the public. Believed to be the only complete collection of the works currently on display, the sculptures were a gift to Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts from alumnus Avrum Gray (BS mechanical engineering 1956). Valued at more than $21 million and with a market value of as much as $52 million, the collection represents the largest gift in the history of Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts.

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Richard Kuhn, a molecular virologist at Purdue University, co-leads a multi-agency grant from the National Institutes of Health aimed at mapping virus vaccines ahead of potential pandemics. “We use state-of-the-art tools and a team of the best experts to understand how to prepare and target the human immune system for the fastest and most effective response against viral pathogens,” Kuhn said. “Our primary responsibility is to improve human health in the US and the world.” This work is part of Purdue’s One Health initiative.

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Researchers from Purdue University’s College of Engineering have developed a patent-pending optical counterfeit detection method for chips used in semiconductor devices. The Purdue method is called RAPTOR, or residual attention-based processing of manipulated optical responses. It uses deep learning to identify tampering. It is an improvement over traditional methods, which face challenges in scalability and distinguishing between natural degradation and manipulation by adversaries.

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