Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab

Using Philosophy to Understand Virtual Spaces and Machine Learning Processes

What We Do

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Blending the Philosophical with the Computational

The Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence (VRAI) Lab is run by the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. Headed by Dr. Javier Gomez-Lavin, the lab utilizes high-end computers to both train and analyze machine learning algorithms, such as LLMs, as well as virtual reality software packages and headsets to study perception and cognition in virtual spaces. The VRAI Lab has a research focus in the conceptual, cognitive, epistemic, and moral questions that undergird the accelerating development of tomorrow's technologies.

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VRAI Events

 

News

Some recent things coming out of the Purdue Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Spring 2024

Dr. Javier Gomez-Lavin and the VRAI Lab Win the Oxford University Press Teaching with Technology Prize

The VRAI lab interior, with seating and computer stations.