What’s the right path for AI?
Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers and audience members grappled with the many dimensions of AI’s impact. In one of the conferences’s keynote talks, journalist Karen…
MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity
The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Hasso Plattner Foundation. The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), and Hasso Plattner Foundation celebrated the launch of the MIT and HPI AI…
A better method for identifying overconfident large language models
Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see if the model generates the same answer. But this method measures self-confidence, and even the most impressive LLM might be…
Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items. Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches….
Sustaining diplomacy amid competition in US-China relations
The United States and China “are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, at a recent MIT seminar. “We need to work with each other for the good of both of our countries.” During the MITEI Presents: Advancing the Energy Transition…
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact
The early years of faculty members’ careers are a formative and exciting time in which to establish a firm footing that helps determine the trajectory of researchers’ studies. This includes building a research team, which demands innovative ideas and direction, creative collaborators, and reliable resources. For a group of MIT faculty working with and on…
AI in Schizophrenia Rehab Uses Risks and Future
Why it matters: AI in Schizophrenia Rehab Uses Risks and Future explores real world tools, privacy challenges and emerging clinical benefits.
AI Recommendation Systems Explained
Why it matters: AI recommendation systems explained clearly. Learn how Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify predict what users want.
How Artificial Intelligence Works
Why it matters: How artificial intelligence works explained clearly. Learn machine learning, neural networks, and real AI examples.
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?
Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a patient’s lungs, legs, feet, and other parts of the body. The condition is chronic and incurable, often leading to arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest. For many centuries, bloodletting and leeches were the treatment of choice, famously practiced…