In 2010, Karthik Dinakar and Birago Jones, students at the Media Lab, teamed up to create a tool designed to aid content moderation teams at companies including Twitter and YouTube. The project generated widespread interest and soon they were invited to the White House to demonstrate their technology designed to identify concerning posts on these…
Language models (LMs) are key components in the realm of artificial intelligence as they facilitate the understanding and generation of human language. In recent times, there has been a significant emphasis on scaling up these models to perform more complex tasks. However, a common challenge stands in the way: understanding how a language model's performance…
With an alarming rise in the use of machine learning (ML) models in high-stakes societal applications come growing concerns about their fairness and transparency. Instances of biased decision-making have caused an increase in distrust among consumers who are subject to decisions based on these models. The demand for technology that allows public verification of fairness…
Oral drugs must pass through the lining of the digestive tract to be absorbed into the bloodstream and take effect. Certain proteins present in the cells lining the digestive tract, known as transporters, aid this process, but for many drugs, the specific transporters they utilize are unknown. This knowledge could enhance patient treatment regimens as…
Researchers from MIT and other institutions have developed a method to prevent chatbot performance from deteriorating during prolonged human-AI interactions. The method, called StreamingLLM, is based on a slight modification to the crucial key-value cache (KV Cache) that is central to large language models employed by many AI-driven platforms. The KV Cache, similar to a…
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and partner organizations have developed a solution to address a key issue limiting the effectiveness of AI chatbots. Large language machine-learning models, such as ChatGPT, often crash or slow down during extended rounds of dialogue with humans. The study identified the cause of this problem as the…
A group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a revolutionary anti-tampering ID tag. Notably smaller and significantly less expensive than traditional radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, this evolution could revolutionize the way technology authenticates the legitimacy of a product. But how does it secure itself from the common issue of…
A team of MIT researchers has created a cryptographic ID tag that boasts several advantages over existing technologies - spurring hope it will revolutionize supply chain verification. The tag is several times smaller, much cheaper, and offers better security than the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags currently used for product verification. The new tag uses…