Unfair Automated Hiring Systems Are Everywhere
Earlier this month, Lina Khan, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), wrote an essay in The New York Times affirming the agency’s commitment to regulating AI. But there was...
Matthew Kearney: Bringing AI and philosophy into dialogue
Matthew Kearney was drawn to MIT by the culture of its cross-country team. Growing up in Austin, Texas, he loved spending time outdoors and playing soccer, but by high school...
Elon Musk loses bid to end SEC ‘muzzle’ over Tesla tweets
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Elon Musk’s bid to modify or end his 2018 securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that required a Tesla lawyer to approve...
MIT professor to Congress: “We are at an inflection point” with AI
Government should not “abdicate” its responsibilities and leave the future path of artificial intelligence solely to Big Tech, Aleksander Mądry, the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing at MIT and...
New method accelerates data retrieval in huge databases
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalogue or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that directly determine the location where data would...
Leveraging transfer learning for large scale differentially private image classification
Posted by Harsh Mehta, Software Engineer, and Walid Krichene, Research Scientist, Google Research Large deep learning models are becoming the workhorse of a variety of critical machine learning (ML) tasks....
Mining the right transition metals in a vast chemical space
Swift and significant gains against climate change require the creation of novel, environmentally benign, and energy-efficient materials. One of the richest veins researchers hope to tap in creating such useful...
Data-centric ML benchmarking: Announcing DataPerf’s 2023 challenges
Posted by Peter Mattson, Senior Staff Engineer, ML Performance, and Praveen Paritosh, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous potential, from diagnosing cancer to engineering...
The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed
Sudowrite is intended to be used as a writer’s assistant; authors plug in sentences that are giving them trouble, or scenes they’re working on, and the AI offers up a...
Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants
“MIT is a place where dreams come true,” says César Terrer, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Here at MIT, Terrer says he’s given the...
Scaling vision transformers to 22 billion parameters
Posted by Piotr Padlewski and Josip Djolonga, Software Engineers, Google Research Large Language Models (LLMs) like PaLM or GPT-3 showed that scaling transformers to hundreds of billions of parameters improves...
Learning to grow machine-learning models
It’s no secret that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities — for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles Shakespearean sonnets or debug code for a computer program. These...
Pre-trained Gaussian processes for Bayesian optimization
Posted by Zi Wang and Kevin Swersky, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team Bayesian optimization (BayesOpt) is a powerful tool widely used for global optimization tasks, such as hyperparameter tuning,...
Bacterial injection system delivers proteins in mice and human cells
Researchers at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have harnessed a natural bacterial system to develop a new protein delivery...
How Project Starline improves remote communication
Posted by Greg Blascovich and Eric Gomez, User Researchers, Google As companies settle into a new normal of hybrid and distributed work, remote communication technology remains critical for connecting and...
