Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

UTSA takes initiative to join in federal AI safety

UTSA takes initiative to join in federal AI safety

Alessandra Avila, Assistant News Editor March 18, 2024

 UTSA recently joined a government collaboration devoted to promoting AI safety. The U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) aims to bring together government, university and...

Craft and code

Craft and code

Bria Collins, Staff Writer February 6, 2024

The intertwining of artificial intelligence (AI) and art is on the rise in the creative arts industry, which is completely understandable with the evolution of popular programs such as ChatGPT and AVIVA...

New generative AI to improve cardiovascular healthcare

New generative AI to improve cardiovascular healthcare

Faith Kouadio, Staff Writer January 30, 2024

Two researchers from UTSA and UT Health are developing a potentially revolutionary new technology: a generative AI model that would provide cardiologists with a more accurate vision of the inside of patient...

New college progresses forward thinking

New college progresses forward thinking

Noah Willoughby, Staff Writer January 23, 2024

According to Cybersecurity Ventures, 3.5 million jobs are open in the realm of cyber security and data science, which highlights that UTSA announced a new initiative on Jan. 19 to reshape its academic...

Professor utilizes GAI to teach digital storytelling

Professor utilizes GAI to teach digital storytelling

Jessica McLaren, News Editor November 21, 2023

In an era defined by rapid technological innovation, UTSA English professor Dr. Sue Hum has taken an opportunistic approach, inviting artificial intelligence directly into her classroom.  As concerns...

AI is the future of evolution

AI is the future of evolution

Bela Ross, Contributor October 31, 2023

As society has reached a point in technological advancement where we have AI at our fingertips, it has become increasingly obvious that AI is the next step in evolution through its quick adoption into...

UTSA launches new dual degree program in medicine and AI

UTSA launches new dual degree program in medicine and AI

Marcela Montufar Soria, Multimedia Editor October 23, 2023

This year, UTSA became the first and only university in the United States to offer a Medical Doctor and Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) dual degree opportunity to its students. The...

UTSA professor welcomes use of AI

Haley Aguayo, Staff Writer April 18, 2023

The newest and most accessible form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is known as ChatGPT, which is an acronym for chat generative pre-trained transformer. ChatGPT can be used for a number of actions, but...

The positives of AI programs

The positives of AI programs

Dr. Mary Dixson, Professor of Instruction Department of Communication February 14, 2023

If you are a reader of newspapers, a listener of podcasts or a social media user, you may have heard of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 from OpenAI. These programs can conduct...

Is AI artwork acceptable?

Is AI artwork acceptable?

Sam Wendorf, Staff Writer January 24, 2023

There has been a recent trend within the art community: art produced by artificial intelligence (AI). Programs like DeepAI and Craiyon can take images or phrases and produce illustrations inspired by the...

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