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Artificial intelligence programs come into the world as a stream of code, with no knowledge, no experience and no skills – they must be programmed to understand innate human characteristics. “A robot needs to interact with the world,” said Aniket Bera, an associate professor of computer science at Purdue University’s College of Science and an AI expert. “Human brains learn through experience and by applying their experiences to new situations. Our brain learns that characteristics are transferable. Machine learning models do not currently do this. That’s the gap we’re closing.”

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Imagine simply telling your vehicle, “I’m in a hurry,” and it automatically takes you to where you need to be along the most efficient route. Purdue University engineers have discovered that an autonomous vehicle can do this using ChatGPT or other chatbots enabled 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 study, believes that for vehicles to one day be fully autonomous, they must understand everything their passengers command, even if the command is only implied is.

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A collection of 74 bronze sculptures by French impressionist Edgar Degas was opened to the public this week. Considered the only complete collection of works currently on display, the sculptures were a gift from graduate Avrum Gray (1956 BS Mechanical Engineering) to Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts. With a value of more than $21 million and a market value of up to $52 million, the collection represents the largest gift in the history of Purdue College of Liberal Arts.

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Richard Kuhn, a molecular virologist at Purdue University, is co-leading an interagency grant from the National Institutes of Health aimed at developing viral vaccines in advance of potential pandemics. “We use the most advanced tools and a team of the best experts to understand how the human immune system can be primed and targeted for the fastest and most effective response against viral pathogens,” said Kuhn. “Our primary responsibility is to improve human health in the United States and the world.” This work is part of Purdue’s One Health initiative.

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Researchers at 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 stands for the processing of manipulated optical reactions based on residual attention. It uses deep learning to detect manipulation. It represents an improvement over traditional methods that face challenges in scalability and distinguishing between natural mining and adversary manipulation.

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