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Empowering individuals facing challenges with the use of Artificial Intelligence.

Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12, former Media Lab students, developed a tool in 2010 to aid content moderation teams in companies like Twitter (now X) and YouTube. While getting ready to present this project at a cyberbullying summit at the White House, the pair discovered an issue with their…

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Empowering individuals with challenges to utilize Artificial Intelligence.

In 2010, MIT Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones embarked on a project to develop a tool to aid content moderation for companies like Twitter and YouTube. The original concept had difficulty identifying posts using teenage slang and other non-obvious language nuances, but after realizing those most familiar with the data should be…

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Empowering individuals facing challenges with the use of Artificial Intelligence.

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…

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A methodology for enhancing the efficiency of versatile robots.

MIT researchers have developed a technique to train robots on multiple tasks by combining and optimising data from a variety of sources. At the core of their work is a type of generative AI known as a 'diffusion model', which learns from a specific dataset to complete a task. However, the particular innovation here lies…

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Empowering individuals facing challenges with the utilization of artificial intelligence.

In 2010, MIT Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones initiated a project to develop a tool that could assist content moderation teams at firms such as Twitter and YouTube. They were invited to showcase their innovation at a White House summit on cyberbullying, however, the demo failed to identify problematic posts because of…

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Providing individuals facing challenges with access to artificial intelligence.

In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones began a project while at MIT's Media Lab, aiming to build a tool to aid content moderation teams at companies like Twitter and YouTube. This tool aimed to identify concerning posts, but the creators struggled to comprehend the slang and indirect language commonly used by posters. This led…

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Empowering individuals who have issues to resolve with the use of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17 and Birago Jones SM ’12, Media Lab students at MIT, collaborated on a class project to design a practical tool for content moderation at companies such as Twitter and YouTube. This groundbreaking project garnered substantial excitement, leading to an invitation to present a demonstration at a cyberbullying…

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Empowering individuals facing challenges with the use of artificial intelligence.

In 2010, Media Lab students Karthik Dinakar SM ’12, PhD ’17, and Birago Jones SM ’12 partnered for a class project aimed at developing a tool to assist content moderation teams at firms such as Twitter (now X) and YouTube. The widely acclaimed project led to an invitation to demonstrate their innovation at a cyberbullying…

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