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Two actors in 1920s attire sitting on a couch, laughing, in a black and white image
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Jeff Liang
“Hay Fever” will run from Nov. 14-19 in the Performing Arts Theater on campus.
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Walter Capps speaking from a podium
Walter Capps on the campaign trail, 1996
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Diverse group of students listening to a lecture in a modern lecture hall
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Elena Zhukova
UC Santa Barbara students attend a lecture in the Interactive Learning Pavilion
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A pyramid of concept cards underpins a basilica on a laptop screen. Behind the computer is a more abstract pyramid of concepts floating above the desk.
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An illustration by Midjourney with the prompt: “A computer with clouds of equations and symbols.”
What an artificial intelligence displays on the screen reflects its internal representation of the world, which may be quite different than our own.

The mind of the machine
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NSF director at the Engineering Sciences Building
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Matt Perko
NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan speaking at the Engineering Sciences Building
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UC Santa Barbara Graduate Fellows group photo illustration
Hamzah Baig, Marcell Cadney, Marissa Gionet-Gonzales, Julio Orellana and Tessa Cookmeyer
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Two male dancers perform on a blackened stage
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Jeff Liang
A scene from Santa Barbara Dance Theater's 2023 show, “The Ties that Bind/Los lazos que unen.”