Meet Jean, Penn Engineering’s AI Tutor, Available 24/7 News / April 23, 2025 Imagine that you’re a first-year student in the Master of Computer and Information Technology (MCIT) program, Penn Engineering’s most popular online degree. You’ve spent hours on a coding assignment, only to encounter the same bug, over and over. You could post a question on the online discussion board, but, like... Read More
Training Medical AI with Knowledge, Not Shortcuts News / October 15, 2024 When human radiologists examine scans, they peer through the lens of decades of training. Extending from college to medical school to residency, the road that concludes in a physician interpreting, say, an X-ray, includes thousands upon thousands of hours of education, both academic and practical, from studying for licensing... Read More
Detecting Machine-Generated Text: An Arms Race With the Advancements of Large Language Models News / August 12, 2024 Machine-generated text has been fooling humans for the last four years. Since the release of GPT-2 in 2019, large language model (LLM) tools have gotten progressively better at crafting stories, news articles, student essays and more, to the point that humans are often unable to recognize when they are reading... Read More
Chris Callison-Burch Talks Empowering Tomorrow’s AI Engineers News / April 3, 2024 Through programs like the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence, the first Ivy League undergraduate degree of its kind, Penn Engineering is addressing the critical demand for specialized engineers and empowering students to be leaders in AI’s responsible use. We sat down with Chris Callison-Burch, Associate Professor in... Read More
