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Professor's Research Lights p Scientific, Media Interest
"Producing true [artificial intelligence] . . . will be one of the most important moments in history," says University of Wyoming Assistant Professor Jeff Clune.
Credit: Wyoming Business Report
University of Wyoming (UW) computer science professor Jeff Clune was one of three authors of "Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled," the 63rd most-discussed article in any branch of science worldwide in 2015. "Deep learning is the hottest technology in [artificial intelligence] and we revealed that it can fail pretty spectacularly in ways that most people didn't realize it would," Clune says. "I had an inkling people in the field that focus on AI would be very interested in this work, but I had no idea how widely read it would be across many different scientific disciplines, nor how much interest there would be by the general public in the paper."
Clune was on the cover of the May 28, 2015 issue of Nature for work on how damaged robots can adapt to carry out their missions. Clune also is the director of UW's Evolving Artificial Intelligence Lab, which conducts research on deep learning and harnesses discoveries about evolutionary biology to develop intelligent neural networks. Clune won a 2015 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation for his research on artificial intelligence.
"There is a huge community of researchers and scholars conducting research on AI and that number is growing by the week as people understand the possibilities and opportunities being created by recent advances," Clune says.
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