Robotics company Figure has revealed its first collaboration with OpenAI, the creators of the artificial intelligence language learning model, ChatGPT. The collaboration resulted in the development of Figure 01, a full-size humanoid robot powered by OpenAI. The announcement was made by Figure’s founder and CEO, Brett Adcock, in a two-and-a-half-minute video, which showed a demo…
In late November, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held a Generative AI Week involving faculty, staff, and students from the institution. The event served as a platform to discuss the opportunities and important applications of generative artificial intelligence technologies across varied disciplines. The week's agenda included a main symposium and four subject-specific symposia. MIT President…
MIT's Improbable AI Lab has developed a novel multimodal framework for artificial intelligence (AI) called the Compositional Foundation Models for Hierarchical Planning (HiP). The aim of this system is to help robots conduct complex tasks that involve numerous smaller steps, from household chores to more elaborate industrial processes.
Traditionally, AI systems have required paired visual,…
MIT PhD students interning at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are researching ways to improve the efficiency and accuracy of AI systems in understanding and communicating through natural language. The team, including Athul Paul Jacob, Maohao Shen, Victor Butoi, and Andi Peng, aims to enhance each stage of the process involving natural language models, from…
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a partnership between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) School of Engineering and Pillar VC, has named six fellows for the spring 2024 semester. Each fellow is a graduate student in their final year of a master's or PhD program who will conduct research in the fields of AI, machine learning,…
Jospin Hassan, a resident of Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, realized the lack of educational opportunities in his environment, particularly in cutting-edge fields like data science and artificial intelligence that can offer employment opportunities and solutions to local challenges. This led him to establish his organization, ADAI Circle, after he earned a spot in the…