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From ChatGPT to Siri, Americans of all ages are using text- and voice-based artificial intelligence tools to find social connection, entertainment and even health information. One recent survey found that 55% of people 50 and over have used such technologies. But are they using them safely and wisely?  UW-Stout Assistant Professor Camille Banger and AI Integration Technologist Emily Laird were […]

Three of Wisconsin’s leading manufacturing support organizations announced today a groundbreaking partnership to help mid-market manufacturers strategically adopt artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. The collaboration between MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s Synapse initiative, Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP), and the Manufacturing Outreach Center (MOC) and Center for Advanced Manufacturing & AI (CAM-AI), both housed at UW-Stout, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University, creates the state’s most […]

As an instructor of documentary filmmaking at UW-Stout, Assistant Professor Keif Oss’s professional interests in artificial intelligence (AI) filmmaking center on tools that can meaningfully inform and streamline the creative process.  Oss, program director of video production, is currently using AI to explore a conceptual documentary based on his grandfather’s World War II journal from the Battle […]

Three Universities of Wisconsin campuses partnered with Royal Credit Union to launch an innovative internship program using AI to support this Wisconsin-based financial institution. This story is one of four in a series showcasing the impact of this collaboration. Read more about the faculty who supported the internship, how the partnership supported the state’s economic development and how the […]

UW-Stout’s 360-degree AI education approach prepares graduates to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving workforce by embedding artificial intelligence training in all of its degree programs. For two groups of applied mathematics and computer science students in an Advanced Machine Learning course, their final projects resulted in a model that could actively impact their institution and another that created a […]

Assistant Professor Fatma Karaman Kabadurmus, with UW-Stout’s social science department, researched how digital technologies and emerging tools, often described as “AI-enabled” or part of Industry 4.0, are reshaping how firms innovate, manage supply chains and compete in today’s economy. A central focus of this work is how digitalization helped firms respond to the unprecedented disruptions of the

Professor Jennifer Grant, with UW-Stout’s biology department, has been curious about how well everyday chatbots dispense health information, including pharmacology advice and influences on human health.  “You sometimes hear that these tools can give distorted or misleading answers, and that’s what first caught my attention,” she said. To quell her curiosity, Grant began several lines of AI

This summer at UW-Stout, students in a new AI Assisted Film and Video Production course will use AI tools from pre-production concepts to completion, generating scripts, storyboards, shot lists, visual effects, video, music, voice-overs and sound effects to produce a short film. With the course, UW-Stout video production faculty are establishing AI use in filmmaking as a baseline competency.  […]

A new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assisted Film and Video Production course will launch at UW-Stout in summer 2026. The course, possibly a first-of-its-kind in the Universities of Wisconsin, was developed by a video production faculty trio – Keif Oss, Jonny Wheeler and Co O’Neill. Students in the course will produce a short narrative film, using AI tools from pre-production concepts