Patrick Traynor, Ph.D.

Sounding the alarm: UF cybersecurity expert exposes audio deepfake

May 21, 2024

Audio deepfakes are becoming ubiquitous – blurring the line between fact and fiction – but UF researchers are working to develop methods to help the public navigate this new technological terrain. We’ve all heard about audio deepfakes and voice cloning or have even fallen prey to them – you receive a phone call from someone […]

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Athlete running with data points and computer graphics

University of Florida to strengthen its sports program through AI-Powered Athletics

February 9, 2024

A groundbreaking AI-Powered Athletics project is underway at the University of Florida, thanks to $2.5 million in support from former UF President Ben Sasse’s Strategic Funding Initiative. The undertaking is one of five components of the newly funded UF & Sport Collaborative, announced in December – a multi-faceted initiative to propel UF to the global […]

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L-R: My Thai, Ph.D., professor in CISE and associate director of the Nelms Institute for the Connected World ; Lisa Anthony, Ph.D., associate professor and director of Intelligent Natural Interaction Technology in CISE; Barbara Evans, Ph.D., J.D., holds a dual appointment as a professor in both the Levin College of Law and the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Weighing the great AI pause

June 26, 2023

“ We agree. That point is now.” In March, 1,000 top tech experts including Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published their call for a six-month moratorium on further development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, citing what they perceived to be a potential runaway risk without sufficient guardrails. In […]

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