OpenAI has made the decision to remove the "Sky" voice from its AI system, GPT-4o, following claims by actress Scarlett Johansson that the voice was intentionally designed to sound like her own. The artificial intelligence and machine learning research company refuted the claim, stating that the resemblance was purely coincidental.
According to the company's CEO, Sam…
Sixteen leading AI companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, have agreed to a new set of voluntary safety commitments spearheaded by the UK and South Korean governments. Presented before a two-day AI summit in Seoul, these commitments include the assurance that the companies will not develop or implement any AI model if severe risks…
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a new framework for training Artificial Intelligence (AI) models using severely distorted images. This novel technique, named Ambient Diffusion, allows AI to generate ideas from images without directly reproducing them—an issue which poses the risk of copyright violation in prevalent AI models. Traditional AI models,…
A team of researchers has developed a new method for improving tensor contraction paths (CPs), which are used to solve problems across numerous areas of research, including machine learning, graph problems, quantum circuits, and model counting. Their technique improves upon the standard greedy algorithm (SGA), incorporating an enhanced cost function that covers a larger range…
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a method of machine learning where agents are trained to make decisions by interacting with their environment. This interaction involves taking action and receiving feedback via rewards or penalties. RL has been crucial in developing complex technologies such as advanced robotics, autonomous vehicles, and strategic game-playing mechanisms and has been instrumental…
Python programming, with its vast number of libraries, is a flexible and powerful tool for programmers. However, a gap in the Python ecosystem has been identified: the lack of no-code studios for developing web front-ends. A handful of low-code tools have been available, such as Streamlit, Taipy, and Gradio, but none have fully automated this…
Generative AI models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) have proliferated over various industries, advancing the future of programming. Historically, the field of programming has been primarily governed by symbolic coding that unites traditional symbolic code and neural networks to solve specific tasks. Symbolic programming's backlash, however is that it often requires developers to manually…
In 2019 Haofeng "Hector" Xu, having a background in aerospace engineering and presently pursuing a PhD in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, started learning to fly helicopters. The experience, fraught with risk, led him to consider how helicopter flight could be made safer. In 2021 Xu founded Rotor Technologies, an autonomous helicopter company focused…
Researchers from MIT and other institutions have discovered the key to why AI chatbot conversations can break down and developed a solution that enables continuous dialogue. The issue lies in the chatbot's key-value cache (akin to a conversational memory). In some models, earlier data points are discarded when the cache reaches its limit, causing the…
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…
