The Surprising Synergy Between Acupuncture and AI
I used to fall asleep at night with needles in my face. One needle shallowly planted in the inner corners of each eyebrow, one per temple, one in the middle...
Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land
According to MIT’s charter, established in 1861, part of the Institute’s mission is to advance the “development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.”...
IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to navigate outdoors without any outdoor experience
Posted by Joanne Truong, Student Researcher, and Wenhao Yu, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Teaching mobile robots to navigate in complex outdoor environments is critical to real-world applications, such as...
Google is throwing generative AI at everything
Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant, it announced at its annual I/O...
Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick?
Linda Yaccarino has been friendlier with Elon Musk than most ad executives — and as Twitter’s new CEO it’s her job to convince colleagues across the industry to do business...
Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is...
Success at the intersection of technology and finance
Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin had some free advice for an at-capacity crowd of MIT students at the Wong Auditorium during a campus visit in April. “If you find...
The open-source AI boom is built on Big Tech’s handouts. How long will it last?
Last week a leaked memo reported to have been written by Luke Sernau, a senior engineer at Google, said out loud what many in Silicon Valley must have been whispering...
MaMMUT: A simple vision-encoder text-decoder architecture for multimodal tasks
Posted by AJ Piergiovanni and Anelia Angelova, Research Scientists, Google Research Vision-language foundational models are built on the premise of a single pre-training followed by subsequent adaptation to multiple downstream...
