There’s a lot more to AI than just chatbots and video slop. At UC Berkeley, researchers are using new AI tools to improve lives in surprising ways. Here’s how:🌟 1. Learning how whales communicate: A team of Cal linguistics experts is using AI to help study sperm whale calls, uncovering that whale communication might be closer to human language than we once thought. They say such revelations could benefit conservation and animal rights movements.🌟 2. Monsoon predictions: Cal and U of Chicago sc ...

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In the late ’90s, a group project in a UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science rhetoric class sparked a decades-long friendship and creative partnership for Sanjay Shah and Rachelle Mendez, leading to parallel paths in the television industry, multiple hit shows and prestigious awards like the Emmys. Or as Shah puts it, the “rhetoric major, Russell Merritt, and a four-DVD Netflix plan was my film school.”Shah is a writer, showrunner, and executive producer on Everybody Still Hates Chris, and ha ...

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