Episode 9.5: Incorporating artificial intelligence into universities
Update: 2025-03-24
Description
Question: Do you use ChatGPT or another AI program?
Meet Barrie Robison (go.uidaho.edu/3E34kvn), a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/4kwcihb) and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/43TLX6C) at University of Idaho. Artificial intelligence seems to be infiltrating all aspects of our lives. Robison will discuss the ways U of I is supporting its researchers, including a story of translating old educational texts, and how he hopes his team can improve how the university is run.
Visit our website uidaho.edu/vandaltheory. Email us at vandaltheory@uidaho.edu. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu.
Time stamps
(0:00 ) Introduction
(1:02 ) Have you used AI?
(2:07 ) Meet Barrie Robison
(4:34 ) What is AI?
(7:49 ) What assumptions do people make about AI?
(9:17 ) Translating a German cello book
(13:42 ) AI for research administration
(19:07 ) Finding a professor
(23:36 ) Making the arts searchable
(26:53 ) U of I on the AI frontier
Music
“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (go.uidaho.edu/3U3MNHs) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (go.uidaho.edu/3Q6LeY5).
“Andromeda Spiral” by Matthew Robert Mateau and Jeremy Robert Chatelain (go.uidaho.edu/42eqUdI) via Amphibious Zoo music.
Meet Barrie Robison (go.uidaho.edu/3E34kvn), a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/4kwcihb) and director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (go.uidaho.edu/43TLX6C) at University of Idaho. Artificial intelligence seems to be infiltrating all aspects of our lives. Robison will discuss the ways U of I is supporting its researchers, including a story of translating old educational texts, and how he hopes his team can improve how the university is run.
Visit our website uidaho.edu/vandaltheory. Email us at vandaltheory@uidaho.edu. Learn about Idaho’s premier research university, University of Idaho, at uidaho.edu.
Time stamps
(0:00 ) Introduction
(1:02 ) Have you used AI?
(2:07 ) Meet Barrie Robison
(4:34 ) What is AI?
(7:49 ) What assumptions do people make about AI?
(9:17 ) Translating a German cello book
(13:42 ) AI for research administration
(19:07 ) Finding a professor
(23:36 ) Making the arts searchable
(26:53 ) U of I on the AI frontier
Music
“Young Republicans” by Steve Combs (go.uidaho.edu/3U3MNHs) via freemusicarchive.org, not modified (go.uidaho.edu/3Q6LeY5).
“Andromeda Spiral” by Matthew Robert Mateau and Jeremy Robert Chatelain (go.uidaho.edu/42eqUdI) via Amphibious Zoo music.
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