Category: Artificial Intelligence

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Aug 28 2024

First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

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This summer, 350 participants came to MIT to dive into a question that is, so far, outpacing answers: How can education still create opportunities for all when digital literacy is...

Aug 24 2024

Artificial Intelligence

MIT researchers use large language models to flag problems in complex systems

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Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack....

Aug 22 2024

Artificial Intelligence

LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve

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Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it’ll politely decline. Ask the same system to describe that scent to you, and it’ll wax...

Aug 21 2024

Artificial Intelligence

3 Questions: How to prove humanity online

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As artificial intelligence agents become more advanced, it could become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-powered users and real humans on the internet. In a new white paper, researchers from...

Aug 14 2024

Artificial Intelligence

New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain

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In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Alzheimer’s is one of many debilitating neurological disorders...

Aug 12 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies

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As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom — could...

Aug 11 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Dimitris Bertsimas named vice provost for open learning

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Dimitris Bertsimas PhD ’88 has been appointed vice provost for open learning at MIT, effective Sept. 1. In this role, Bertsimas, who is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor...

Aug 08 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments

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The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments. Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse....

Aug 05 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Method prevents an AI model from being overconfident about wrong answers

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People use large language models for a huge array of tasks, from translating an article to identifying financial fraud. However, despite the incredible capabilities and versatility of these models, they...