Artificial Intelligence Initiative
UMaine AI is a unique Maine-based venture that brings together university, industry, government, and community collaborators from Maine and beyond to advance the field of artificial intelligence. Through the development of innovative technologies and applications, we find transformative solutions to enhance human life and societal well-being in Maine and beyond.
Focus Areas
Learning With AI
As the sudden rise of generative AI sends shock waves through society, no sector is feeling the disruption as abruptly and pervasively as education. Large Language Models like ChatGPT threaten to make the term paper obsolete, while diffusion-based text-to-image generators like Midjourney offer a way to create images that’s completely outside the workflow of most illustrators and designers, whether trained in analog or digital media.
Rather than try to ban this technology from classrooms outright, the Learning With AI project asks if this moment offers an opportunity to introduce students to the ethical and economic questions wreaked by these new tools, as well as to experiment with progressive forms of pedagogy that can exploit them.
AI webinars
These free webinars provided the Maine business community, policymakers, attorneys, healthcare providers, and others key insights from AI experts around the globe. Visit the webinar archive page to access these courses.
About UMaine AI
UMaine AI draws top talent and leverages a distinctive set of capabilities from the University of Maine and other collaborating institutions from across Maine and beyond, while it also recruits world-class talent from across the nation and the world. It is centered at the University of Maine, leveraging the university’s strengths across disciplines, including computing and information sciences, engineering, health and life sciences, business, education, social sciences, and more.
Vision
To make Maine a world-class hub for artificial intelligence research, education, and applications.
Mission
To develop through innovative and coordinated research, education, and strategic partnerships transformative AI-based solutions that enhance the social and economic well-being of the citizens of Maine and beyond.
UMaine AI News
- From interpreting a medical scan to sorting family photos, artificial intelligence (AI) makes snap judgments users often trust blindly. Chaofan Chen, assistant professor of electrical […]
- A research team led by two University of Maine Ph.D students developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that could make it easier and faster for […]
- For Jeremy Juybari, the path from managing a defense research company to developing artificial intelligence (AI) models has been anything but ordinary. Now a Ph.D. […]
- Maine Public featured Richard Corey, director and co-founder of the University of Maine VEMI lab, on its show “Maine Calling” in a segment titled “A.I. […]
- Inc. interview Jon Ippolito, University of Maine professor of new media, for a story about the startup Positron in Reno, Nevada, and its efforts to […]
- The Associated Press interviewed Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, on how the increasing usage of AI is impacting the […]
- CNN interviewed Sarah Howorth, associate professor of special education, about how AI can offer both benefits and drawbacks to learning in the classroom. “AI is […]
- The Portland Press Herald interviewed Hepeng Li, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, for a story on whether AI […]
- WGME (CBS 13 in Portland) reported on a new app from Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, which calculates the […]