The UF Undergraduate Entomology Club hosted its 17th annual BugFest at Steinmetz Hall for dozens of students, families, children and alumni. The day was filled with presentations and interactive elements that allowed guests to immerse themselves into bug culture.
Fakhoury, the 28-year-old co-founder of How Bazar and Dion Dia Records, also didn’t expect the Big: Culture & Arts Festival to go viral as organically as it did this year, having garnered attention from music news outlets like The Fader. But notoriety was never top of mind for her.
Within the program, which launched in Fall 2024, each student must take 18 credits of core courses in 6 subjects: machine learning, AI systems, sensing and analysis, security, ethics and deep learning.
AI assignments didn’t replace existing course elements, Jervis said. Instead, it filled a gap where online learners struggled to produce enough language and receive interaction through conversations. Technology, she said, should always serve pedagogy, not the other way around.
As artificial intelligence reshapes how information is created and shared, journalists and community members say it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the truth from artificial reality on social media. That phenomenon is especially pronounced in the Hispanic community.
The data scientist and adjunct UF professor is one of several local researchers who say the systems behind AI can reflect bias in ways that shape real-world outcomes.
Los latinos reciben tratamiento para la salud mental a una tasa inferior a la de los adultos estadounidenses, en general. Hoy, expertos dicen que los ‘chatbots’ podrían llenar ese hueco — aunque la tecnología trae sus propias complicaciones.
Garcia’s 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III, died by suicide in February 2024 after corresponding with an AI-companion chatbot, according to her testimony and a later lawsuit against Character Technologies, Character.AI’s parent company.
Alachua County Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Taylor said the department uses AI for administrative tasks but remains wary of bringing the technology into patient care.
Algunos expertos en lingüística y traductores coinciden en que la IA es util para la traduccion de idiomas, si es utilizada con moderacion. Otros estudiantes y miembros del cuerpo critican la tecnología por su incapacidad para retener el conocimiento cultural y dicen que la traducción humana nunca podrá ser reemplazada.
AI-generated videos and images range from comedic to targeting real-life sources or topics, Probst said. This type of content is becoming harder to recognize with improvements in AI.
In a state where natural systems are already under pressure, AI data centers are a development Florida should approach with caution or avoid altogether.
Some language experts and translators agree AI is helpful in language translation, if used in moderation. Other students and faculty criticize the technology for its inability to retain cultural knowledge and say human translation can never be replaced.
Latino people receive mental health treatment at a lower rate than U.S. adults overall. Today, experts say chatbots could fill that gap — though the technology brings its own complications.
In my most recent semester at UF, a lot of my class syllabuses stated the use of AI was permitted when appropriate and when properly disclosed. In Madrid, all of my syllabuses strictly prohibit the use of AI in any form.
AI has suspended us in a state of vertigo as we wonder if the world we know is real or fake, or if the conceptions of reality we hold will collapse underneath our feet. The question has now become whether we ought to embrace this vertigo as our new reality, or if we should fight against the expansion of AI content.
Professor Thinh Nguyen, director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Clinic at Levin, is helping prepare future attorneys for the shift toward artificial intelligence.
Train, recover, repeat. It’s a cycle college athletes across the country face daily.
The county aims to one day use AI to increase productivity, streamline internal operations and create faster, more efficient responses to community inquiries.
At UF, some students say using AI in curriculum has its benefits, while others believe the technology should remain separate from student evaluations. Many faculty, meanwhile, are already experimenting with the technology for curriculum, research and grading.
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