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An improved method for regulating the transformation of flexible robots.

Scientists at MIT have been working on the design and control of a reconfigurable, squishy, soft robot, similar in nature to 'slime', that has potential applications in healthcare, wearable devices and industrial systems due to its ability to shape-shift to complete varying tasks. These soft robots currently only exist in labs and do not possess…

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CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman and President Sally Kornbluth engage in a conversation about the potential trends in AI.

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Creating the policy for the future.

First-year students in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program at MIT, Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, are interested in investigating housing inequality issues. They took the opportunity to conduct hands-on research on real-world problems at the MIT Policy Hackathon, an event that invites participants globally to find potential solutions to societal challenges. This…

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Creating the strategy for the future

First-year students in MIT's Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program, Eric Liu and Ashley Peake, have a unique interest in investigating housing inequality issues. At the MIT Policy Hackathon, they had an opportunity to apply their knowledge and conduct research on these real-world issues. The hackathon, organized by students in the IDSS and TPP,…

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Creating the strategy for the future.

First year students, Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, from the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), are researching housing inequality issues. They used a policy hackathon organized by IDSS as an opportunity for hands-on research. The annual event gathers participants from around the world to…

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Creating the strategy for the future.

Eric Liu and Ashely Peake, first-year students in the Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program within the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), started their academic journey keen on overcoming housing inequality issues. They had their first hands-on research experience by participating in the MIT Policy Hackathon. Run by students from IDSS…

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Developing custom coding languages for effective visual artificial intelligence systems.

Associate Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley at the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is a creator behind many innovative technologies used in photographic image processing and editing. Ragan-Kelley has contributed to the visual effects industry and was instrumental in designing the Halide programming language, a tool widely used in the photo editing sector. Ragan-Kelley,…

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The brain’s language network has to exert more effort when dealing with complicated and unfamiliar sentences.

Researchers from MIT, led by neuroscience associate professor Evelina Fedorenko, have used an artificial language network to identify which types of sentences most effectively engage the brain’s language processing centers. The study showed that sentences of complex structure or unexpected meaning created strong responses, while straightforward or nonsensical sentences did little to engage these areas.…

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The brain’s language network has to exert more effort when dealing with sentences that are intricate and unknown.

Researchers from MIT have been using a language processing AI to study what type of phrases trigger activity in the brain's language processing areas. They found that complex sentences requiring decoding or unfamiliar words triggered higher responses in these areas than simple or nonsensical sentences. The AI was trained on 1,000 sentences from diverse sources,…

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The brain’s language network has to put in more effort when dealing with complex and unfamiliar sentences.

Scientists from MIT have used an artificial language network to investigate the types of sentences likely to stimulate the brain's primary language processing areas. The research shows that more complicated phrases, owing to their unconventional grammatical structures or unexpected meanings, generate stronger responses in these centres. However, direct and obvious sentences prompt barely any engagement,…

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