Gamifying medical data labeling to advance AI
When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was working on his thesis in MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, he noticed his wife, then a medical student, spending hours studying on apps that...
Empowering Asia’s citizens: The generative AI opportunity for government
In a recent speech, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella evoked the lofty power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate progress, prosperity, and standards of living. “This technology reaches everyone in the...
Musk trains with Lex Fridman ahead of fight with Zuckerberg
Martial arts rookie Elon Musk was pictured Tuesday sparring during an “impromptu” training session for his potential cage match with Mark Zuckerberg. Podcaster, AI researcher and Brazilian jiujitsu black belt...
How to Tackle AI—and Cheating—in the Classroom
This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt at the end of a school year. By the time...
Marc Jacobs uses AI, ChatGPT for NYC fashion show
It was over and done with in a New York minute — or three. The Marc Jacobs fall 2023 runway show took over the New York Public Library on Monday...
Richard Branson’s $450K ‘space tour’ under fire amid Titan sub tragedy
Virgin Galactic’s first commercial spaceflight, expected to launch Thursday, is drawing comparison to last week’s Titan submersible tragedy. The company, a part of billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, announced this...
Unifying image-caption and image-classification datasets with prefix conditioning
Posted by Kuniaki Saito, Student Researcher, Cloud AI Team, and Kihyuk Sohn, Research Scientist, Perception Team Pre-training visual language (VL) models on web-scale image-caption datasets has recently emerged as a...
Law targeting organized retail crime takes effect, but how much will it help?
The Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces (INFORM) for Consumers Act – a law designed to make it more difficult for organized retail crime groups to sell illicit goods through...
Elon Musk microdoses ketamine to treat depression: report
Elon Musk uses small doses of ketamine to treat depression and occasionally takes full doses of the popular club drug known as Special K when he attends parties, according to...
SBF loses bid to toss criminal charges over FTX’s collapse
A US judge on Tuesday denied Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to have criminal charges against him thrown out, paving the way for the founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to face trial starting Oct....
Build an AI strategy that survives first contact with reality
Whether you think next-generation AI heralds an exciting new world for humankind or sows the seeds for its destruction, few business leaders can afford to ignore it. But in this...
ChatGPT’s Storytelling Chops Are No Match for Dungeons & Dragons
The experiment began quite simply: We popped open a few cans of Mountain Dew, put some Hawkwind and Blue Oyster Cult on the turntable, grabbed our bags of polyhedral dice,...
Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched last November, life has started to...
AI helps dentists catch more cavities, gum disease
Gum disease (periodontitis) affects more than 47% of Americans — or nearly 65 million people — including former Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez, who recently announced he has the condition....
AI-powered diversity recruiting firm Joonko in chaos as CEO accused of ‘staggering’ fraud
Joonko, a New York City-based startup that created an AI-powered job board to improve diversity in hiring, is on the brink of collapse after its CEO allegedly duped investors with...
