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Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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Visual AI
Real-ESRGAN Practical Restoration
Real-ESRGAN extends ESRGAN to handle the messy, unknown degradations of real-world photos rather than clean synthetic blur.
Visual AISwinIR Transformer Restoration
SwinIR applies the Swin Transformer's shifted-window attention to image restoration tasks like super-resolution, denoising, and JPEG artifact removal.
CompaniesWayve and End-to-End Driving Models
Wayve is a UK company building self-driving systems with a single learned neural network that maps camera pixels directly to driving controls — no hand-coded…
CompaniesWaymo Autonomous Driving Stack
Waymo, born from Google's 2009 self-driving project, runs the most mature fully driverless robotaxi service in the US.
CompaniesCruise Self-Driving Systems
Cruise was GM's robotaxi unit that ran driverless rides in San Francisco before a 2023 crash and regulatory fallout led GM to halt the robotaxi program.
ApplicationsAI in Archaeological Site Detection
AI scans satellite images, aerial photos, and laser-scanned terrain to spot buried or hidden archaeological sites that human surveyors would miss.
ApplicationsAI in Ancient Language Decipherment
AI helps scholars read lost scripts and damaged texts by spotting statistical patterns in symbols, restoring missing characters, and proposing translations.
ApplicationsAI in Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Detection
AI powers tools that detect copied text, paraphrased sources, and machine-generated writing in student and academic work.
ApplicationsAI in Earthquake Early Warning
AI analyzes the first faint seismic waves from a quake to predict shaking seconds before it arrives, giving people and machines precious time to react.
ApplicationsAI in Flood Forecasting
AI turns rainfall, river-gauge, terrain, and satellite data into accurate, hours-to-days-ahead flood predictions, including where water will rise…
ApplicationsAI in Air Quality Monitoring
AI fills the gaps between sparse pollution sensors and turns raw data into block-by-block air-quality maps and forecasts.
ApplicationsAI in Wastewater Treatment Control
AI helps wastewater plants treat sewage more efficiently by predicting incoming loads and automatically tuning aeration, chemical dosing, and pumping.
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