Dinari Clacks

Sep 7, 2024 | triblive.com | Megan Trotter |Haley Moreland |Dinari Clacks

Pittsburgh may not be the birthplace of AI, but it served as a cradle. And the technology is older than you probably think. Carnegie Mellon University is one of the places where AI was being developed more than 50 years ago. Tom Mitchell, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon since 1986 and led the university’s Machine Learning Department for the first 10 years of its operation, said AI has been around longer than people realize.

Sep 7, 2024 | triblive.com | Megan Trotter |Dinari Clacks |Haley Moreland

The breakneck pace of advancements in artificial intelligence development has led to the technology touching seemingly every facet of life, from work to finances to health care. That rapid growth and unchecked development have created as much anxiety as hope, from Wall Street to the White House. But while AI is becoming ubiquitous, it isn’t going to replace the human brain anytime soon, according to most experts.

Aug 12, 2024 | triblive.com | Dinari Clacks

Summer vacation for most college students is about earning some extra money or sitting back and relaxing. Others, however, decide to learn a new language. That’s true for Fox Chapel graduate Daniel Thomas, who spent his summer studying Japanese in Okayama, Japan. Thomas, a rising junior at the University of Rochester, is majoring in history and Japanese studies. He also is a member of the school’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.

Jul 29, 2024 | triblive.com | Dinari Clacks

Nancy Brock doesn’t think there will be any problem with a shortage of food for this year’s Mount St. Peter Church Festa Italiana. They’ll have more than 3,400 meatballs, 40 trays of lasagna and plenty of spaghetti, pizza and polenta, said Brock, who is in charge of food preparation for the 43rd year of the festival Aug. 2 and 3 in New Kensington.

Jul 28, 2024 | triblive.com | Dinari Clacks

New faces are a regular occurrence during the summer at The River Church in New Kensington. The church, in collaboration with Week of Hope, a group mission trip organization based in Colorado, has been a host site for mission trips for the past 10 years. Week of Hope has been organizing such trips for churches across the country for more than 30 years.