Exploring, understanding, and shaping GenAI
Generative AI demands a multidisciplinary focus. As AI rapidly grows across industries, this emerging field necessitates novel frameworks, applications, and ethical guidelines for implementation and utilization. The establishment of the Generative AI Center at UC Santa Cruz aims to address these challenges by creating a collaborative hub for exploring, understanding, and shaping this evolving field.
We are committed to advancing AI through bold and socially responsible innovation.
Featured news
AI is good at weather forecasting. Can it predict freak weather events?
UC Santa Cruz researchers are finding new ways to leverage AI to better predict rare, unprecedented events like Category 5 hurricanes.
AI leaders gather in Silicon Valley for UC Santa Cruz, SF Tech Week event
More than 200 AI builders, investors, and researchers came together for conversation, learning, and collaboration at the event “AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots,” co-hosted by the Generative AI Center.
AI chatbots perpetuate biases when performing empathy, study finds
A study led by Professor of Computational Media Magy Seif El-Nasr explores how GPT-4o, the latest model from OpenAI, evaluates and performs empathy compared to humans, and finds major gaps exist.
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