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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.
Thu, 09 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Anthropic recently launched an iOS app for its Claude chatbot. We asked the company’s head of product design how to get the most out of the AI helper.
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:13:20 +0000
OpenAI released draft guidelines for how it wants the AI technology inside ChatGPT to behave—and revealed that it’s exploring how to ‘responsibly’ generate explicit content.
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
Demis Hassabis, Google’s artificial intelligence chief, says the AlphaFold software that revolutionized the study of proteins has received a significant upgrade that will advance drug development.
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
People are using AI at work whether their bosses want them to or not, new data shows. But it’s desperation, not innovation, driving the change.
Tue, 07 May 2024 18:54:24 +0000
ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear.
Tue, 07 May 2024 18:04:10 +0000
AI-generated images of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and more celebrities in Met Gala refinement took over X and other platforms Monday night.
Mon, 06 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Synthetic DNA could be used to spark a pandemic. A move by President Biden aims to create new standards for the safety and security of mail-order genetic material.
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: An assassination plot, an AI security bill, a Project Nimbus revelation, and more of the week’s top security news.
Fri, 03 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
CoreWeave, once a small player in crypto, is now a $19 billion unicorn that provides GPUs to AI developers. Its frenetic culture and rising competition now pose challenges, former employees say.
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
“Yahoo Boy” cybercriminals are openly running dozens of scams across Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, TikTok, YouTube, and more.
Fri, 10 May 2024 14:45:00 -0400
More than a decade since its launch, App Inventor recently hosted its 100 millionth project and registered its 20 millionth user. Now hosted by MIT, the app also supports experimenting with AI.
Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400
A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot’s entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items.
Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Ashutosh Kumar, a materials science and engineering PhD student and MathWorks Fellow, applies his eclectic skills to studying the relationship between bacteria and cancer.
Mon, 06 May 2024 10:15:00 -0400
The conversation in Kresge Auditorium touched on the promise and perils of the rapidly evolving technology.
Fri, 03 May 2024 16:10:00 -0400
Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley optimizes how computer graphics and images are processed for the hardware of today and tomorrow.
Fri, 03 May 2024 16:00:00 -0400
Together, the Hasso Plattner Institute and MIT are working toward novel solutions to the world’s problems as part of the Designing for Sustainability research program.
Fri, 03 May 2024 13:50:00 -0400
MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering grad students are undertaking a broad range of innovative research projects.
Wed, 01 May 2024 16:00:00 -0400
Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:55:00 -0400
TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:20:00 -0400
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI.
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:00:00 -0400
An expert in robotics and AI, Shah succeeds Steven Barrett at AeroAstro.
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:35:00 -0400
For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized.
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers have developed a security solution for power-hungry AI models that offers protection against two common attacks.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
A new technique can be used to predict the actions of human or AI agents who behave suboptimally while working toward unknown goals.
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0400
Lincoln Laboratory researchers are using AI to get a better picture of the atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface. Their techniques could improve weather and drought prediction.
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0400
MIT Sea Grant students apply machine learning to support local aquaculture hatcheries.
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:00:00 -0400
MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Director Matthias Winkenbach uses AI to make vehicle routing more efficient and adaptable for unexpected events.
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:30:00 -0400
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence.
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0400
By providing plausible label maps for one medical image, the Tyche machine-learning model could help clinicians and researchers capture crucial information.
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output.
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:00:00 -0400
Iwnetim Abate aims to stimulate natural hydrogen production underground, potentially unearthing a new path to a cheap, carbon-free energy source.
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0400
Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes.
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.
Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400
The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:00:00 -0400
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0400
The new approach “nudges” existing climate simulations closer to future reality.
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects.
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:30:00 -0400
Novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality.
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:10:00 -0400
FeatUp, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, boosts the resolution of any deep network or visual foundation for computer vision systems.
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:15:00 -0400
Joining three teams backed by a total of $75 million, MIT researchers will tackle some of cancer’s toughest challenges.
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 16:50:00 -0400
MIT CSAIL postdoc Nauman Dawalatabad explores ethical considerations, challenges in spear-phishing defense, and the optimistic future of AI-created voices across various sectors.
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500
By enabling models to see the world more like humans do, the work could help improve driver safety and shed light on human behavior.
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500
MIT spinout DataCebo helps companies bolster their datasets by creating synthetic data that mimic the real thing.
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Lightmatter, founded by three MIT alumni, is using photonic technologies to reinvent how chips communicate and calculate.
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Tamara Broderick uses statistical approaches to understand and quantify the uncertainty that can affect study results.
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:30:00 -0500
MIT.nano Immersion Lab works with AR/VR startup to create transcontinental medical instruction.
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:40:00 -0500
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, faculty co-directors of the new MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, describe why the work matters and what they hope to achieve.
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:10:00 -0500
The MIT seniors will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University.
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500
By breaking an intractable problem into smaller chunks, a deep-learning technique identifies the optimal areas for thinning out traffic in a warehouse.
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:35:00 -0500
After acquiring data science and AI skills from MIT, Jospin Hassan shared them with his community in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi and built pathways for talented learners.
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:30:00 -0500
MIT LIDS awarded funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission as part of a multi-state collaborative project to model and test new smart grid technologies for use in rural areas.
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code.
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500
Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers can predict interactions that could interfere with a drug’s effectiveness.
Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500
MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Researchers developed a simple yet effective solution for a puzzling problem that can worsen the performance of large language models such as ChatGPT.
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0500
Autonomous helicopters made by Rotor Technologies, a startup led by MIT alumni, take the human out of risky commercial missions.
Mon, 05 Feb 2024 05:00:00 -0500
Dermatologists and general practitioners are somewhat less accurate in diagnosing disease in darker skin, a new study finds. Used correctly, AI may be able to help.
