Brown CS Blog

Following a University report on AI, Brown leaders discuss aligning AI policy with academic excellence, safeguarding academic integrity, supporting faculty and students, and preserving critical thinking in the age of AI.

A new project (“Where are the data workers behind AI?”) from the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign is an investigative attempt to make the data annotation and labeling industry transparent.

 

 

In a new blog post, Emily Hong, who co-led the CNTR AISLE Legislation Lab with Dre Boyd-Weatherly, takes a moment to reflect on the lab’s journey of success, growth, and iteration thus far.

A recent Brown+Beyond event welcomed alums and friends to a discussion with two campus AI leaders, Michael Littman and Brenda Rubenstein.

Last week, Brown CS Master's student Ilana Nguyen spoke at the UN about AI in education. The central question: How do we ensure that AI expands opportunity rather than reinforce existing inequities?

Imagine watching a concert not from a fixed camera angle, but from any angle. The catch? Volumetric video is incredibly hard to store and stream, and you can have the most photorealistic 4D scene in the world, but if you can't get it to a viewer efficiently, it's stuck in a lab. Our work, PackUV, tackles exactly this problem.

In this paper, we leverage a 3D Geometric Foundation Model to build a self-supervised pipeline that evaluates 3D consistency in AI-generated videos. By integrating our video generation model with reinforcement learning, we are able to generate highly 3D-coherent and realistic videos. This approach significantly reduces morphing, flickering, and artifacts, outperforming current state-of-the-art methods.

The Sunlab is no longer with us. Students who graduated in the past decade or so think of it mainly as a place where they could use desktop computers running Linux and attend TA hours and help sessions. But it started as something different.

Thinking about Tom, and our work together in the Department, several passionate themes come to mind – so many that I’ve only been able to write them at this final moment.

This summer, on a grant from Brown's Startup Fellowship program, Eric Xia developed www.word.golf with Julian Beaudry, a fellow CS undergraduate. They've done their best to follow a spirit of inquiry, creating a project which challenges the imagination while retaining a sense of familiarity and playfulness.