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Improving safety in the sky with autonomous helicopters.

In 2021, Haofeng (Hector) Xu, a student well-versed in aviation and aerospace engineering, established Rotor Technologies Inc., an autonomous helicopter company. This decision rooted from his personal experiences in flying helicopters along with the realization of the life risks pilots undertake daily in the US while operating small aircraft, many of which result in fatalities.…

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An innovative approach allows AI chatbots to engage in conversation throughout the day without experiencing any failure.

When engaging in lengthy dialogues, advanced AI-powered chatbots often become inept, resulting in a significant performance downturn. A team of researchers from MIT alongside others have deduced a reason for this issue and devised a straightforward solution to prevent the bot from crashing or slowing down. The method, StreamingLLM, effectively ensures a continuous discussion irrespective…

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Enhanced safety in the sky with autonomous helicopters.

In 2019, Hector (Haofeng) Xu, a PhD student at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, decided to learn to fly helicopters. After experiencing the hazards of flying small aircraft firsthand, he was motivated to enhance helicopter flight safety. In 2021, he elevated his strong passion for aeronautical safety and started his own autonomous helicopter company…

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An innovative method allows AI chatbots to engage in conversation all day without experiencing any system failures.

A team of researchers from MIT and other institutions has discovered a remarkable cause of performance deterioration in chatbots and found a simple solution that allows persistent, uninterrupted dialogue. This problem occurs when human-AI interaction involves continuous rounds of conversation, which can overburden the large language machine-learning models that power chatbots like ChatGPT. The researchers have…

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A novel approach has been developed to allow AI chatbots to engage in conversation throughout the entire day without collapsing.

Researchers from MIT and other institutions have developed a method that prevents large AI language machines from crashing during lengthy dialogues. The solution, known as StreamingLLM, tweaks the key-value cache (a sort of conversation memory) of large language models to ensure the first few data pieces remain in memory. Typically, once the cache's capacity is…

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Improving aviation safety with autonomous helicopters.

Hector (Haofeng) Xu, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, elected to develop a safer form of helicopter flight following several nerve-wracking experiences in the air. In 2021, he formed Rotor Technologies, Inc., an autonomous helicopter firm dedicated to making the routine missions of small aircraft safer through advanced technology. The company retrofits existing…

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A novel method enables AI chatbots to communicate continuously without failure.

Researchers from MIT and other institutions have found a solution to an issue that causes machine-learning model-run chatbots to malfunction during long, continuous dialogues. They found that significant delays or crashes happen when the key-value cache, essentially the conversation memory, becomes overloaded leading to early data being ejected and the model to fail. The researchers…

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