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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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Improving safety in the skies through autonomous helicopters.

In 2019, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, a PhD student from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, decided to learn to fly helicopters, aiming to improve their safety. Two years later, he founded Rotor Technologies, Inc., an autonomous helicopter company addressing the risks that many pilots face, especially those involving small, private aircraft in the United States. Rotor…

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Enhancing sky safety with autonomous helicopters.

In 2019, Haofeng (Hector) Xu, a PhD student at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, began learning to fly helicopters. His experiences with various risks in the cockpit led to his motivation to make helicopter flight safer. Subsequently, in 2021, he established Rotor Technologies, Inc. This autonomous helicopter company aims to retrofit existing helicopters with…

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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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More secure airspace through autonomous helicopters.

In late 2019, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, whilst pursuing his PhD in MIT’s aeronautics and astronautics department, took to learning to fly helicopters. After some near misses, he was inspired to make helicopter flight safer. This would be the foundation for his autonomous helicopter company, Rotor Technologies, Inc., established in 2021. The aim was to mitigate…

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A novel method enables AI chatbots to engage in conversations throughout the day without any interruptions.

A team of researchers from MIT and other institutions has discovered a key issue with large-scale machine learning models causing chatbot performance to degrade. When engaged in extensive dialogues, the huge language models behind bots like ChatGPT sometimes begin to fail. However, the team devised a solution enabling nonstop conversation without deterioration or lag. The…

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