Artificial Intelligence

A Hawaiʻi Island teacher has created an AI tool that allows teachers to quickly give feedback to their students via a Google Docs add-on. He said tasks that would have taken up to 10 hours now take less than one. Other schools are adopting practices for using AI as a teaching tool. HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports on the status of technology in the classroom.

Artificial intelligence can refine weather forecasts for Hawaiʻi. That could help state officials predict where the next wildfire will be. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote has more.

Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in many aspects of our lives. It's also an area that advertisers are watching closely. And in Japan, that attention now includes a new TV commercial. HPR's Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

Artificial intelligence is the technology behind facial recognition for unlocking your phone, the personalization of social media and much more. As it becomes more prevalent, Hawaiʻi businesses have started to consider the usefulness, or harmfulness, of AI. Ian Kitajima, the president of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, shared his perspective.

Local public and private schools are wrestling with whether to embrace or ban ChatGPT from their classrooms. So far, the Education Department has restricted students from using ChatGPT in schools, although teachers and administrators continue to use it for work. HPR's Cassie Ordonio has more.

The new artificial intelligence software ChatGPT has raised concerns among local educators. The chatbox can write academic essays, poems and computer code. HPR's Cassie Ordonio spoke to one Oʻahu teacher who created a lesson plan to demonstrate how students can use ChatGPT to practice critical thinking.

Contributing Editor Neal Milner highlights worries over increased AI use in higher education; new DOT director focuses on road safety and increasing the information highway; HPR reporter Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi details proposals at the state Legislature that affect Native Hawaiians; Oʻahu's Neighborhood Board Commission seeks local candidates

Efforts are underway to teach computers to understand ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language). Using artificial intelligence technology could be a game changer in advancing the use of Hawaiian language. But some worry about tech companies and control – an area of concern they call “data sovereignty.”

In spite of the pandemic, development of artificial intelligence systems globally has not slowed. Today, we'll explore how one East West Center scholar resolves to forge a new ethical relationship with artificial intelligence in his book Buddhism and Intelligent Technology.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday a new website dedicated to artificial intelligence, a place where people can stay up-to-date on the federal…