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How Video Games Became the New Battleground for Actors and AI Protections
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:13:07 +0000
Voice actors ended their 11-month strike against the video game industry, but their fight against AI is just beginning.
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You Asked, We Answered: All of Your AI Angst
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:27:53 +0000
Welcome to Uncanny Valley's very first Q&A, where our host addresses your burning AI-related questions.
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AI Is a Lousy Chef
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000
I asked an AI-powered recipe generator to make some menus. It didn’t tell me to put glue in my guacamole, but the results didn’t come close to besting recipes written by professionals.
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Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:46:46 +0000
Patients and doctors are turning to AI for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, often with stellar results, but problems arise when experts and algorithms disagree.
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Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:34:19 +0000
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.
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McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:28:50 +0000
Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.
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A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 17:59:23 +0000
A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
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Grok Is Spewing Antisemitic Garbage on X
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:32:33 +0000
Elon Musk’s chatbot has gone on a tirade, praising Adolf Hitler and parroting antisemitic tropes.
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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:00:00 +0000
The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.
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Microsoft, OpenAI, and a US Teachers’ Union Are Hatching a Plan to ‘Bring AI into the Classroom’
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:30:08 +0000
The National Academy for AI Instruction will make artificial intelligence training accessible to educators across the country.
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Changing the conversation in health care
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:50:00 -0400
The Language/AI Incubator, an MIT Human Insight Collaborative project, is investigating how AI can improve communications among patients and practitioners.
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AI shapes autonomous underwater “gliders”
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:35:00 -0400
An AI pipeline developed by CSAIL researchers enables unique hydrodynamic designs for bodyboard-sized vehicles that glide underwater and could help scientists gather marine data.
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Study could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers developed a way to make large language models more adaptable to challenging tasks like strategic planning or process optimization.
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New postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate innovation in health care
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0400
Launched with a gift from the Biswas Family Foundation, the Biswas Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will support postdocs in health and life sciences.
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Exploring data and its influence on political behavior
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0400
In MIT's course 17.831 (Data and Politics), students are introduced to the power of analysis, visualization, and research-supported insight into political outcomes.
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Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials
Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400
Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.
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Confronting the AI/energy conundrum
Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:00:00 -0400
The MIT Energy Initiative’s annual research symposium explores artificial intelligence as both a problem and a solution for the clean energy transition.
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Accelerating scientific discovery with AI
Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:30:00 -0400
FutureHouse, co-founded by Sam Rodriques PhD ’19, has developed AI agents to automate key steps on the path toward scientific progress.
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MIT and Mass General Brigham launch joint seed program to accelerate innovations in health
Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0400
The MIT-MGB Seed Program, launched with support from Analog Devices Inc., will fund joint research projects that advance technology and clinical research.
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Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely
Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:00:00 -0400
MIT CSAIL researchers combined GenAI and a physics simulation engine to refine robot designs. The result: a machine that out-jumped a robot designed by humans.
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Merging AI and underwater photography to reveal hidden ocean worlds
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:55:00 -0400
The LOBSTgER research initiative at MIT Sea Grant explores how generative AI can expand scientific storytelling by building on field-based photographic data.
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LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments
Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers find nonclinical information in patient messages — like typos, extra white space, and colorful language — reduces the accuracy of an AI model.
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Researchers present bold ideas for AI at MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium kickoff event
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:45:00 -0400
Presentations targeted high-impact intersections of AI and other areas, such as health care, business, and education.
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Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:25:00 -0400
Caitlin Morris, a PhD student and 2024 MAD Fellow affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, designs digital learning platforms that make room for the “social magic” that influences curiosity and motivation.
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Unpacking the bias of large language models
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:00:00 -0400
In a new study, researchers discover the root cause of a type of bias in LLMs, paving the way for more accurate and reliable AI systems.
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A sounding board for strengthening the student experience
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:00:00 -0400
Composed of “computing bilinguals,” the Undergraduate Advisory Group provides vital input to help advance the mission of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
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Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:45:00 -0400
MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium marks a decade of developing data that improve understanding of how drivers use and respond to increasingly sophisticated automotive features.
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Bringing meaning into technology deployment
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:15:00 -0400
The MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium showcases projects at the intersection of technology, ethics, and social responsibility.
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Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0400
By performing deep learning at the speed of light, this chip could give edge devices new capabilities for real-time data analysis.
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Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask”
Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0400
A new method can physically restore original paintings using digitally constructed films, which can be removed if desired.
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Inroads to personalized AI trip planning
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:00:00 -0400
A new framework from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab supercharges language models, so they can reason over, interactively develop, and verify valid, complex travel agendas.
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Melding data, systems, and society
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:25:00 -0400
A new book from Professor Munther Dahleh details the creation of a unique kind of transdisciplinary center, uniting many specialties through a common need for data science.
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How we really judge AI
Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:30:00 -0400
Forget optimists vs. Luddites. Most people evaluate AI based on its perceived capability and their need for personalization.
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AI-enabled control system helps autonomous drones stay on target in uncertain environments
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:40:00 -0400
The system automatically learns to adapt to unknown disturbances such as gusting winds.
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Envisioning a future where health care tech leaves some behind
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:10:00 -0400
The winning essay of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize puts health care disparities at the forefront.
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Helping machines understand visual content with AI
Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:45:00 -0400
Coactive, founded by two MIT alumni, has built an AI-powered platform to unlock new insights from content of all types.
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Teaching AI models what they don’t know
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A team of MIT researchers founded Themis AI to quantify AI model uncertainty and address knowledge gaps.
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AI stirs up the recipe for concrete in MIT study
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:45:00 -0400
With demand for cement alternatives rising, an MIT team uses machine learning to hunt for new ingredients across the scientific literature.
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Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:50:00 -0400
SketchAgent, a drawing system developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, sketches up concepts stroke-by-stroke, teaching language models to visually express concepts on their own and collaborate with humans.
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3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets
Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:30:00 -0400
Courses on developing AI models for health care need to focus more on identifying and addressing bias, says Leo Anthony Celi.
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Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapy
Wed, 28 May 2025 16:15:00 -0400
Researchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.
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An anomaly detection framework anyone can use
Wed, 28 May 2025 16:00:00 -0400
PhD student Sarah Alnegheimish wants to make machine learning systems accessible.
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Building networks of data science talent
Tue, 27 May 2025 16:11:00 -0400
Through collaborations with organizations like BREIT in Peru, the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society is upskilling hundreds of learners around the world in data science and machine learning.
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MIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing
Tue, 27 May 2025 10:00:00 -0400
The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.
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AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention
Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.
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Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures
Wed, 21 May 2025 16:35:00 -0400
Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.
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The sweet taste of a new idea
Mon, 19 May 2025 16:30:00 -0400
Sendhil Mullainathan brings a lifetime of unique perspectives to research in behavioral economics and machine learning.
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With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell
Thu, 15 May 2025 10:30:00 -0400
Trained with a joint understanding of protein and cell behavior, the model could help with diagnosing disease and developing new drugs.
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Study shows vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words
Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Words like “no” and “not” can cause this popular class of AI models to fail unexpectedly in high-stakes settings, such as medical diagnosis.
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MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work
Tue, 13 May 2025 16:35:00 -0400
With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.
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Hybrid AI model crafts smooth, high-quality videos in seconds
Tue, 06 May 2025 12:15:00 -0400
The CausVid generative AI tool uses a diffusion model to teach an autoregressive (frame-by-frame) system to rapidly produce stable, high-resolution videos.
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Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation
Mon, 05 May 2025 16:15:00 -0400
A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.
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New tool evaluates progress in reinforcement learning
Mon, 05 May 2025 16:00:00 -0400
“IntersectionZoo,” a benchmarking tool, uses a real-world traffic problem to test progress in deep reinforcement learning algorithms.
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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain
Fri, 02 May 2025 15:30:00 -0400
New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators.
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Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new method helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions.
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Merging design and computer science in creative ways
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:00 -0400
MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.
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New model predicts a chemical reaction’s point of no return
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0400
Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.
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“Periodic table of machine learning” could fuel AI discovery
Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
Researchers have created a unifying framework that can help scientists combine existing ideas to improve AI models or create new ones.
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Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
A new technique automatically guides an LLM toward outputs that adhere to the rules of whatever programming language or other format is being used.
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A faster way to solve complex planning problems
Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400
By eliminating redundant computations, a new data-driven method can streamline processes like scheduling trains, routing delivery drivers, or assigning airline crews.
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