A step toward safe and reliable autopilots for flying
In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into...
Hyperdimensional Computing Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
Despite the wild success of ChatGPT and other large language models, the artificial neural networks (ANNs) that underpin these systems might be on the wrong track. For one, ANNs are...
AI tool Stable Diffusion amplifies race and gender stereotypes
A popular generative AI tool that creates images from text prompts is rife with gender and racial stereotypes when it comes to rendering people in “high-paying” and “low-paying jobs,” according...
Three Spanish MIT physics postdocs receive Botton Foundation fellowships
Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, were chosen by the Department of Physics as the first cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation...
Imagen Editor and EditBench: Advancing and evaluating text-guided image inpainting
Posted by Su Wang and Ceslee Montgormery, Research Engineers, Google Research In the last few years, text-to-image generation research has seen an explosion of breakthroughs (notably, Imagen, Parti, DALL-E 2,...
Elon Musk wants Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon for Twitter shows
Twitter boss Elon Musk wants to lure liberal TV hosts like fired CNN anchor Don Lemon or MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to his platform to balance out conservative views voiced...
Mark Zuckerberg jabs Apple Vision Pro for making people ‘sit on a couch by themself’
Metaverse evangelist Mark Zuckerberg took a shot at tech rival Apple over its pricey mixed-reality headset, saying the new gadget is only for people “sitting on a couch by themself.”...
Meta reveals Twitter rival, says it will be ‘sanely run’
Meta teased a standalone app in a “response to Twitter” during a company-wide meeting on Thursday, and a top exec at the Facebook parent company has already taunted Twitter boss...
Mark Zuckerberg plans to integrate AI technology ‘into every single’ Meta platform
Mark Zuckerberg told executives Thursday that AI tools will soon be integrated “into every single one” of Meta’s products. The Facebook founder demonstrated during an all-hands meeting how the ChatGPT-like...
