When engaging in continuous dialogues, powerful language machine-learning models that drive chatbot technologies such as ChatGPT can struggle to cope, often leading to a decline in performance. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere believe they have found a solution to this issue, which ensures chatbots can continue a conversation without crashing or…
A few years ago, MIT researchers created an innovative cryptographic ID tag several times smaller and much cheaper than traditional RFIDs (radio frequency tags) commonly used to authenticate products. Despite the significant improvements in size, cost, and security this new ID tag brought, it shared a major security vulnerability with RFIDs, where a counterfeiter could…
Researchers from MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Duke University have developed a multipronged strategy to identify which transporter proteins drugs use to pass through the GI tract. This could not only improve patient treatment by revealing which drugs might interact unfavorably with each other, but also enhance the development of new drugs by informing…
A team of researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Google Research have developed an image-to-image diffusion model called Alchemist, which allows users to modify the material properties of objects in photos. The system adjusts aspects such as roughness, metallicity, innate color (albedo), and transparency, and can be applied to…
Researchers from MIT and other locations have developed a solution to an issue with chatbot performance deterioration following continuous dialogue with a human - a problem attributed to the memory degradation in large language machine-learning models. Their solution, termed StreamingLLM, works by retaining key data points in the memory cache, enabling a chatbot to continue…
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an antitampering ID tag that uses terahertz waves to make products almost impossible to counterfeit. The tag uses microscopic metal particles mixed with the glue that attaches the tag to a product. The terahertz waves can detect the unique pattern created by the metal particles,…
Researchers from MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Duke University have developed a strategy to identify the transporter proteins used by different drugs to exit the digestive tract. This knowledge could improve patient treatment, as drugs relying on the same transporter can interfere with each other and should not be prescribed together.
The researchers adapted…
A team of researchers, including those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have created a system called StreamingLLM that allows chatbots to maintain ongoing dialogues without suffering from performance issues. The method involves a reconfiguration of the model's key-value cache—a form of memory storage—that commonly leads to models failing when the cache is overloaded…
MIT researchers have developed an antitampering cryptographic ID tag that offers improved security, lower cost and a much smaller size than traditional radio frequency tags. The previous generation of terahertz tags, like radio frequency identifiers (RFIDs), were vulnerable to tampering, as fraudsters could move the tags from genuine to counterfeit goods without the authentication system…
A team of researchers from MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Duke University have worked together to develop a method for identifying how different drugs exit the digestive system. This is a key question in pharmacology, as it is often associated with drug interactions and efficacy. In this study, the researchers utilized a combination of…
Researchers from MIT and other institutions have proposed a solution to the challenge of AI systems losing the context of conversation in extended dialogues. Large language models such as ChatGPT, which enable the functioning of chatbots, often struggle to retain information from long conversations, resulting in rapid performance deterioration.
The team has developed a method…