MIT and the University of Washington researchers have devised a method to model human or machine agent behaviour incorporating unknown computational constraints limiting problem-solving abilities. The technique generates an "inference budget" by observing a few previous actions, effectively predicting future behaviour. Lead author Athul Paul Jacob believes the work could help AI systems better understand…
Researchers at MIT and the IBM Watson AI lab have developed a machine-learning accelerator chip which is more resilient to common types of cyber attacks. The chip is designed to protect sensitive user data, such as health records or financial information, whilst also enabling large-scale AI models to run efficiently on devices. The design of…
Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a new open-source dataset, named TorNet, to detect and predict tornadoes. By using artificial intelligence (AI) models trained on TorNet, researchers hope to improve tornado forecasts and warning accuracy, potentially saving lives and minimizing damage.
Tornadoes are challenging to predict, and this represents a high false alarm rate…
Researchers at MIT and the University of Washington have devised a model for detecting the computational limitations of an agent, whether human or machine, that obstruct their ability to solve problems. Agents' performance is monitored to calculate their "inference budget", estimates of the time and effort likely to be re-invested in similar tasks, which then…
MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers have developed a machine-learning accelerator ingrained with defenses against the most common cyber-attacks. The device, which could find use in advanced AI applications like VR/AR and autonomous vehicles, offers robust security at the cost of increased power consumption and a slightly higher price tag. But maintaining optimum…
Around 1,200 tornadoes occur every year in the U.S., causing billions of dollars in damage and claiming an average of 71 lives. Predicting tornadoes is notoriously difficult due to gaps in understanding the precise conditions that cause them to form. The team from MIT's Lincoln Laboratory hopes to address this challenge, using a new open-source…
Researchers from MIT and University of Washington have developed a novel method that utilizes a good model of human behaviour, specifically involving the computational constraints in decision-making, in order to improve the collaboration between AI and humans. The unique technique of their new model permits an automatic inference regarding an agent's computational constraints solely based…
Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have designed a machine-learning accelerator that can improve the security of health-monitoring apps. These applications can be slow and inefficient due to the large machine-learning models that need to be transferred between a smartphone and a central memory server. Instead, the team developed a chip that…
Meteorologists in the northern hemisphere have released a new, open-source dataset to aid in the detection and prediction of tornadoes. Given the working title "TorNet," the dataset was curated by Mark Veillette and James Kurdzo and includes radar data from thousands of US tornadoes over the past decade. Along with the dataset, models trained on…
MIT and the University of Washington researchers have developed a model to understand and predict human behavior by considering computational constraints that limit decision-making abilities for both humans and machines. One of the defining points about the model is its ability to derive an agent's computational constraints or "inference budget" based on a few previous…
Researchers from MIT and the University of Washington have developed a model to predict human behavior that accounts for computational constraints. These constraints can impact the problem-solving abilities of both human and artificial intelligences (AI). The model can infer an “inference budget”, a computation of the possible constraints on an agent’s problem-solving methods, by observing…