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From chip design to biotech, education, mathematics, and beyond, AI is driving innovation and transformation across diverse fields. There is virtually no industry untouched by the influence of AI, with its impact felt in healthcare, finance, transportation, customer service, and more.
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:00:08 +0000
A new AI-powered search engine called Pearl is launching today, with an unusual pitch: It promises to connect you with an actual human expert if the AI answer sucks. WIRED gave it a spin.
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000
A survey of video game developers released Tuesday indicates that a growing number of them fear artificial intelligence will have a negative impact on the industry as a whole.
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Apple Intelligence lets you generate custom emojis when the default options aren’t hitting it.
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:30:00 +0000
If you missed the recent live, subscriber-only Q&A about money and AI scams with WIRED’s advice columnist Reece Rogers, you can watch the replay here.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:01:56 +0000
It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000
The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:02:58 +0000
Over a dozen programs used by creators of nonconsensual explicit images have evaded detection on the developer platform, WIRED has found.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:30:00 +0000
US president Joe Biden just issued a 40-page executive order that aims to bolster federal cybersecurity protections, directs government use of AI—and takes a swipe at Microsoft’s dominance.
Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:01:20 +0000
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and the danger of unintended consequences.
Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:30:00 +0000
WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents, and to get some advice on how we can use automation while retaining our humanity.
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0500
Providing electricity to power-hungry data centers is stressing grids, raising prices for consumers, and slowing the transition to clean energy.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Rapid development and deployment of powerful generative AI models comes with environmental consequences, including increased electricity demand and water consumption.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:50:00 -0500
Assistant Professor Manish Raghavan wants computational techniques to help solve societal problems.
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
The startup NALA, which began as an MIT class project, directly matches art buyers with artists.
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:40:00 -0500
With their recently-developed neural network architecture, MIT researchers can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations.
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:15:00 -0500
Machine-learning models let neuroscientists study the impact of auditory processing on real-world hearing.
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:45:00 -0500
As the use of generative AI continues to grow, Lincoln Laboratory's Vijay Gadepally describes what researchers and consumers can do to help mitigate its environmental impact.
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Inspired by the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500
Using this model, researchers may be able to identify antibody drugs that can target a variety of infectious diseases.
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Matteo Bucci’s research sheds new light on an ancient process, to improve the efficiency of heat transfer in many industrial systems.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
Biodiversity researchers tested vision systems on how well they could retrieve relevant nature images. More advanced models performed well on simple queries but struggled with more research-specific prompts.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Corvus Robotics, founded by Mohammed Kabir ’21, is using drones that can navigate in GPS-denied environments to expedite inventory management.
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:40:00 -0500
The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will be hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT.
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500
MIT engineers developed AI frameworks to identify evidence-driven hypotheses that could advance biologically inspired materials.
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0500
An electronic stacking technique could exponentially increase the number of transistors on chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware.
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:50:00 -0500
Junior Katie Spivakovsky describes her path through New Engineering Education Transformation to biomedical research and beyond.
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly.
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:10:00 -0500
Researchers at MIT, NYU, and UCLA develop an approach to help evaluate whether large language models like GPT-4 are equitable enough to be clinically viable for mental health support.
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0500
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
The “PRoC3S” method helps an LLM create a viable action plan by testing each step in a simulation. This strategy could eventually aid in-home robots to complete more ambiguous chore requests.
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:25:00 -0500
In a recent commentary, a team from MIT, Equality AI, and Boston University highlights the gaps in regulation for AI models and non-AI algorithms in health care.
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
A new technique identifies and removes the training examples that contribute most to a machine-learning model’s failures.
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:20:00 -0500
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data.
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Using LLMs to convert machine-learning explanations into readable narratives could help users make better decisions about when to trust a model.
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500
MIT CSAIL director and EECS professor named a co-recipient of the honor for her robotics research, which has expanded our understanding of what a robot can be.
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:10:00 -0500
Researchers develop “ContextCite,” an innovative method to track AI’s source attribution and detect potential misinformation.
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. Here’s how he’s thinking about AI’s effect on the economy.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:30:00 -0500
Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help those looking to protect their mental health make more informed decisions.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
MIT engineers developed the largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, that could speed design of eco-friendly cars and electric vehicles.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:45:00 -0500
First organized MIT delegation highlights the Institute's growing commitment to addressing climate change by showcasing research on biodiversity conservation, AI, and the role of local communities.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Researchers propose a simple fix to an existing technique that could help artists, designers, and engineers create better 3D models.
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0500
This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip, opening the door to high-speed processors that can learn in real-time.
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data — and why we lack it for many things.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:10:00 -0500
Marzyeh Ghassemi works to ensure health-care models are trained to be robust and fair.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:20:00 -0500
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:30:00 -0500
The MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium provides data-driven insights into driver behavior, along with trust in AI and advanced vehicle technology.
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0500
In a talk at MIT, White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar outlined challenges in medicine, climate, and AI, while expressing resolve to tackle hard problems.
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500
The technique could make AI systems better at complex tasks that involve variability.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:15:00 -0500
The Tree-D Fusion system integrates generative AI and genus-conditioned algorithms to create precise simulation-ready models of 600,000 existing urban trees across North America.
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:30:00 -0500
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the MIT Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” and the artist.
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:50:00 -0500
MIT CSAIL researchers used AI-generated images to train a robot dog in parkour, without real-world data. Their LucidSim system demonstrates generative AI's potential for creating robotics training data.
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:00:00 -0500
Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:10:00 -0500
Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500
By sidestepping the need for costly interventions, a new method could potentially reveal gene regulatory programs, paving the way for targeted treatments.
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0500
A new design tool uses UV and RGB lights to change the color and textures of everyday objects. The system could enable surfaces to display dynamic patterns, such as health data and fashion designs.
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don’t form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks.
Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:40:00 -0500
Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry, her work will be honored with a $100K prize, artist residency, and public lecture at MIT in spring 2025.
Mon, 04 Nov 2024 05:00:00 -0500
Researchers are leveraging quantum mechanical properties to overcome the limits of silicon semiconductor technology.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Inspired by large language models, researchers develop a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.
