The "Generative AI: Shaping the Future" symposium, the kickoff event of MIT’s Generative AI Week, drew hundreds of attendees both from academia and industry. Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and keynote speaker, warned attendees against uncritically overestimating the capabilities of generative AI, a technology increasingly powering tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard.
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Researchers at MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed an onboarding process that efficiently combines human and AI efforts. The system educates a user when to collaborate with an AI assistant and when not. This method can find situations when a user trusts the AI model's advice, but the model is incorrect. The…
A committee of leaders and scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released a series of policy papers providing a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence (AI). The goal is to enable the US to maintain its leadership position in AI, preventing potential harm from novel technologies and promoting their societal benefits.
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In late November, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held a Generative AI Week involving faculty, staff, and students from the institution. The event served as a platform to discuss the opportunities and important applications of generative artificial intelligence technologies across varied disciplines. The week's agenda included a main symposium and four subject-specific symposia. MIT President…
Justin Solomon, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is making use of modern geometric techniques to address intricate problems, many of which don't appear to be linked to shapes. He extrapolates from the foundations laid more than 2,000 years ago by the…
Researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a digital simulator that seeks to improve photolithography's precision, often used in computer chips and optical devices manufacture. The process uses light to etch intricate designs onto surfaces, but minor discrepancies often cause devices' final performance to deviate from designers' initial intentions. The…
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has selected Alexander Andonian, Daniel Magley, and Madhumitha Ravichandra as its three inaugural fellows for the fall 2023 semester. All are on the cusp of concluding a master’s or PhD program and will aid in conducting research in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and data science, backed by the program.
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MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers, in collaboration with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, have developed a new metric, the "minimum viewing time" (MVT), to measure the difficulty of recognizing an image. The researchers aimed to close the gap between the performance of deep learning-based AI models and humans in recognizing and…
MIT researchers have developed a new tool that provides better control to animators in shaping their characters. The new technique works by generating mathematical functions, known as barycentric coordinates, that describe how 2D and 3D shapes in animations can move, stretch, and deform in space. By using these functions, an animator can tailor the movement…
In 2023, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has had a busy and eventful year. Under the leadership of newly inaugurated President Sally Kornbluth, the institute saw significant advances in a range of fields, such as artificial intelligence (AI), clean energy solutions, disease detection, and even the science of kindness. Professor Moungi Bawendi was a notable…
A study by MIT neuroscientists, utilising an artificial language network, discovered the type of sentences most likely to stimulate the brain’s key language processing centers. The study concluded that complex sentences, with unusual grammar or unexpected meaning, generate stronger responses. In contrast, simplistic sentences marginally engaged these regions, while nonsensical sequences of words had little…