Skip to main content
Are we ready for computer chips in our brains?

Artificial Intelligence

Image shows an empty university classroom.

May 18, 2023

Pop quiz: AI matches human performance at developing good test questions

The AI model can generate online course assessment questions that instructors found indistinguishable from questions written by humans. 

May 11, 2023

Lester named Goodnight Distinguished University Professor

James Lester, professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, has been named as the inaugural Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 
a green tree with a blue sky

May 10, 2023

NC State partners on new Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, this institute aims to advance foundational AI by incorporating knowledge from agriculture and forestry sciences and leveraging these unique, new AI methods to curb climate effects while lifting rural economies. By creating a new scientific discipline and innovation ecosystem intersecting AI and climate-smart agriculture and forestry, AI-CLIMATE researchers and practitioners will discover and invent compelling AI-powered knowledge and solutions. 
Woman coughs into her hand.

Apr 17, 2023

Researchers help AI express uncertainty to improve health monitoring tech

The new approach is used in a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing. 
Sean Ekins in his office.

Apr 6, 2023

Collaborations Pharmaceuticals uses AI to solve biotech challenges

From a series of lab and office suites on NC State’s Centennial Campus, Collaborations Pharmaceuticals is solving some of the biggest biotech challenges. 
Missing Cummings headshot within a red circle superimposed over a muted colors image of view from driver side of car looking at a crosswalk and traffic labeled by AI.

Mar 21, 2023

Q&A with Missy Cummings: fighter pilot, professor, AI engineer and LAS collaborator 

Missy Cummings, one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots, is now a professor and principal investigator teaching and researching human systems engineering. She studies autonomous vehicles and the… 
A robot with a computer brain moves brightly colored chemicals around a board.

Mar 20, 2023

Self-driven laboratory, AlphaFlow, speeds chemical discovery

The system has already found a more efficient (and previously unheard of) way to produce high-quality semiconductor nanocrystals. 
Nighttime aerial time-lapse view of city intersection and headlights of traffic.

Feb 7, 2023

Researchers propose a fourth light on traffic signals – for self-driving cars

At a traffic light, red means stop and green means go. But transportation engineers at North Carolina State University are now proposing a “white light,” which would enable autonomous vehicles to help control traffic flow – and let human drivers know what’s going on. In computational simulations, the new approach significantly improves travel time through intersections and reduces fuel consumption. 
Artist rendition of human brain inside of head with Neuralink implant.

Jan 9, 2023

Are we ready for computer chips in our brains?

Recently Elon Musk and his company Neuralink announced that they could be ready for human trials of their wireless brain chip in as little as six months. The thought of machines run by artificial intelligence (AI) implanted in our heads is the stuff of dreams and nightmares. Most concerns about this technology come from our need to understand what it can and can not do. So we sat down with our brain-computer interface expert, Dr. CS Nam, to get to the bottom of this.