• Deepfakes, AI, and the Future of Trust: How Can We Tell What’s Real?Using Fossils to Reconstruct Earth’s History

    Kopernik Observatory & Science Center 698 Underwood Rd., Vestal, NY, United States
    Yu Chen, Ph.D, Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Hybrid Program
    Public Programs

    Artificial intelligence (AI) can now create realistic images, videos, and voices that look and sound real, but that doesn’t mean everything online is fake. In this talk, we’ll explore how deepfakes work, why some fake content is easy to spot while other examples are much harder, and what today’s detection tools can and cannot do. Read More ...

    $4 – $6
  • How Drones in the Air are Making the World Safer and Healthier

    Kopernik Observatory & Science Center 698 Underwood Rd., Vestal, NY, United States
    Alex Nikulin PhD Associate Professor of Geophysics Department of Earth Sciences Binghamton University
    Hybrid Program
    Public Programs

    Drones are becoming an indispensable tool for a wide range of applications. In his talk, Dr. Nikulin will show how innovation in remote sensing and artificial intelligence creates adaptable tools that support humanitarian efforts to detect and characterize buried explosive hazards more safely and efficiently, as well as support environmental remediation by locating orphaned and Read More ...

    $4 – $6