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Entering Our ChatGPT Era

Technology & Engineering

From the doctor’s office to the classroom, rapidly advancing generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are already changing life at UC San Diego, leaving no discipline or specialty untouched.

ChatGPT official app icon on iPhone screen

Four-Legged Robot Traverses Tricky Terrains Thanks to Improved 3D Vision

Technology & Engineering

Researchers led by UC San Diego have developed a new model that trains four-legged robots to see more clearly in 3D. The advance enabled a robot to autonomously cross challenging terrain with ease—including stairs, rocky ground and gap-filled paths—while clearing obstacles in its way.

Four-Legged Robot Traverses Tricky Terrains Thanks to Improved 3D Vision

Voices Speak Volumes: Legacy Lecture Links Language to Life

Politics & Society

The annual Legacy Lecture, hosted by the UC San Diego Scholars Society, is an event in which a nominated professor gives a unique talk based on the prompt "If this were the last lecture you ever gave, what would you want to share with the world?"

Garellek with some of his students after the lecture

Researchers Find an Immune System ‘Trip Wire’ That Detects COVID-19

Health & Behavior

Biologists have identified a previously unknown way that our immune system detects viruses. The immune protein CARD8 acts as a trip wire to detect a range of viruses, including the virus that causes COVID. They also found that CARD8 functions differently among species and varies between humans.

When Water Temperatures Change, the Molecular Motors of Cephalopods Do Too

Health & Behavior

Working with live squid hatchlings at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego scientists find the animals can tune their proteome on the fly in response to changes in ocean temperature via the unique process of RNA recoding. The findings inspire new questions about basic protein function.

Broken record: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels jump again

Science & Environment

CO2 levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 424 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego announced this week.