Pieter Abbeel, a director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, co-created the AI robotics startup Covariant, whose models—and brain trust—were enlisted by Amazon last year.

Posters around campus advertise a new AI-powered dating app inspired by a “Black Mirror” episode, available to UC Berkeley and UC San Diego students. The recently launched Ditto app uses ...

In his lab, he's working with an artificial intelligence that has been built to listen and then mimic the sounds it hears, ...