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This small, secure identification label can verify nearly everything.

MIT researchers have developed a new tiny cryptographic ID tag with revolutionary terahertz technology, making it smaller, cheaper, and more secure than traditional radio frequency tags (RFIDs). The latter are often attached to products to verify authenticity but can easily be compromised by counterfeiters who remove and reattach them to fake products. To combat this,…

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A cooperative effort within a community for advancement.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating with Roxbury, Massachusetts' Camfield Estates housing development for over a decade, helping to combat systemic racial disparities in housing. Led by Associate Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, a team from the MIT Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR) primarily focus their research on the impact of data and…

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A novel method allows AI chatbots to engage in conversation continuously without breaking down.

MIT researchers have discovered a fault in the design of language machine-learning models that can cause AI chatbots' performance to drastically deteriorate during lengthy conversations. Essentially, when data stored in a chatbot's "memory" (known as the key-value cache) exceeds its capacity, the earliest data is removed, sometimes causing the chatbot to malfunction or slow down.…

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This small, secure identification label can verify almost anything.

Researchers at MIT have developed a cryptographic ID tag that is significantly smaller, cheaper, and more secure than traditional radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. The new tag is based on the use of terahertz waves which are smaller and have much higher frequencies than radio waves. The innovation overcomes a major security flaw common with…

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An innovative approach allows AI chatbots to engage in conversation throughout the day without experiencing a system failure.

Researchers from MIT and other institutions have developed a method that enables a chatbot to carry on unbroken conversation without crashing or losing performance. This method, named StreamingLLM, involves a tweak to the key-value cache, a form of "conversation memory", that helps AI operate. The team found when the cache became too full, the first…

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This small, secure identification label can verify nearly everything.

MIT researchers have created a secure and portable ID tag, utilizing terahertz waves, a technology considered superior compared to traditional RFIDs due to the improved security it offers. The team has bypassed the significant vulnerability of both RFID and terahertz tags, where a counterfeiter can remove the tag from an original item and transfer it…

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A novel approach permits AI chatbots to engage in conversation throughout the day without experiencing failures.

Researchers from MIT and other institutions have discovered the key to why AI chatbot conversations can break down and developed a solution that enables continuous dialogue. The issue lies in the chatbot's key-value cache (akin to a conversational memory). In some models, earlier data points are discarded when the cache reaches its limit, causing the…

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Design Fellows for MAD 2024 have been revealed.

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) unveiled the 2024 Design Fellows at an event held at the MIT Museum on May 1, 2024. The Academy has continually supported MIT graduate students since its inception in 2022 by providing them with a fellowship enabling the pursuit of design research and projects, along with community-building. Interns…

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A fresh method allows AI chatbots to engage in conversation throughout the day without experiencing any system failures.

A team of researchers from MIT and other institutions have found a way to prevent chatbots driven by large language machine-learning models from collapsing during lengthy conversations. The failure typically occurs when the key-value cache, or "conversation memory", in some methods cannot contain more information than its capacity, resulting in the first data points being…

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A novel method allows AI chatbots to engage in continuous conversation without experiencing system failure.

Research from MIT and other institutions has developed a method, called StreamingLLM, that enables AI chatbots to maintain continuous dialogue without crashing or slowing down. The technique tweaks the key-value cache or conversation memory at the core of large language models. Failure often occurs when this cache needs to store more information than it can…

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