Discovering the transporters used by specific drugs can have profound impacts on patient care, and can also inform drug development. Drugs taken orally must pass through the digestive tract, and this often happens via transporter proteins. But, it's often unknown which transporter a certain drug uses to exit the digestive tract, and this could potentially…
In 2010, MIT Media Lab graduate students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones collaborated on a project aimed at helping Twitter and YouTube content moderation teams detect problematic content. One daunting challenge they initially faced was understanding the nuanced and coded language that posters were using. This hurdle sparked an understanding that successful model development required…
Artists are turning to a new social platform, Cara, developed by Singaporean photographer and director Jingna Zhang, as a move to shield their artwork from unauthorized AI training applications on mainstream platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Zhang launched Cara in April 2023 as a protective measure for artists against data scraping for AI, and the…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in natural language processing tasks such as summarization and question answering, using zero-shot and few-shot prompting approaches. However, these prompts are insufficient for enabling LLMs to operate as agents navigating environments to carry out complex, multi-step tasks. One reason for this is the lack of adequate training…