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Prof. Sorger TV interview on $280B Chips bill

Volker Sorger, Associate Professor at the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science and Director of the Devices & Intelligent Systems Laboratory at GW, was recently interviewed on Fox news about the Semiconductor chip bill.

What Would A Sentient, Conscious Robot Mean For Humans?

"The sentience of a Google chat bot comes from it collecting data from decades worth of human texts — sentient human text," said Robert Pless, computer science department chair at George Washington University. "And so the sentience that you see is not of the chat bot, but it's the sentience of all of us who put the data in that it's kind of giving to you."Read the full story.

Summer Boot Camp Seeks to Kickstart New Research on ‘Trustworthy’ Artificial Intelligence

Group of experts Ph.D. fellows from GW’s Designing Trustworthy AI Systems program are gaining first-hand knowledge about convergent problems in artificial intelligence and machine learning.Read the full story on GW Today.