‘We all need and crave affection’
A lusty widow is launching an app for other bereaved spouses craving no strings attached sex. Nicky Wake, 51, said thousands of widows and widowers are ready to join WidowsFire,...
2022-23 Takeda Fellows: Leveraging AI to positively impact human health
The MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration between MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company, fuels the development and application of artificial intelligence capabilities to benefit human health and drug development....
Elon Musk warns of tough economy, says Tesla not immune
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday warned that the electric-vehicle maker was not immune to the global economy, which he said will be difficult for the next 12 months. At the company’s...
CNET Published AI-Generated Stories. Then Its Staff Pushed Back
In November, venerable tech outlet CNET began publishing articles generated by artificial intelligence, on topics such as personal finance, that proved to be riddled with errors. Today the human members of...
Joining the battle against health care bias
Medical researchers are awash in a tsunami of clinical data. But we need major changes in how we gather, share, and apply this data to bring its benefits to all,...
Using reinforcement learning for dynamic planning in open-ended conversations
Posted by Deborah Cohen, Staff Research Scientist, and Craig Boutilier, Principal Scientist, Google Research As virtual assistants become ubiquitous, users increasingly interact with them to learn about new topics or...
Google, Meta, Amazon hire low-paid foreign workers after US layoffs: report
Some of the biggest companies in tech including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Salesforce have hired foreign workers just weeks after reducing headcount by thousands of employees, according to a...
Gaining real-world industry experience through Break Through Tech AI at MIT
Taking what they learned conceptually about artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) this year, students from across the Greater Boston area had the opportunity to apply their new skills to...
ChatGPT’s Sam Altman testifies as concerns grow about AI risks
The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention “will be critical to mitigate the risks of increasingly powerful” AI systems. “As...
MIT researchers develop an AI model that can detect future lung cancer risk
The name Sybil has its origins in the oracles of Ancient Greece, also known as sibyls: feminine figures who were relied upon to relay divine knowledge of the unseen and...
Putting clear bounds on uncertainty
In science and technology, there has been a long and steady drive toward improving the accuracy of measurements of all kinds, along with parallel efforts to enhance the resolution of...
MIT Solve announces 2023 global challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship
MIT Solve, an MIT initiative with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges, announced today the 2023 Global Challenges and the Indigenous Communities Fellowship. Solve invites anyone from...
How do you solve a problem like out-of-control AI?
Last week Google revealed it is going all in on generative AI. At its annual I/O conference, the company announced it plans to embed AI tools into virtually all of...
Automating the math for decision-making under uncertainty
One reason deep learning exploded over the last decade was the availability of programming languages that could automate the math — college-level calculus — that is needed to train each...
Solving a machine-learning mystery
Large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-3 are massive neural networks that can generate human-like text, from poetry to programming code. Trained using troves of internet data, these machine-learning models take...
