Sara Beery came to MIT as an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) eager to focus on ecological challenges. She has fashioned her research career around the opportunity to apply her expertise in computer vision, machine learning, and data science to tackle real-world issues [...]
Thu, Feb 06, 2025Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise adoption of generative AI technologies has undergone explosive growth in the last two years and counting. Powerful solutions underpinned by this new generation of large language models (LLMs) have been used to accelerate research, automate content creation, and replace clunky chatbots with AI assistants and more sophisticated AI agents [...]
Thu, Feb 06, 2025Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on the platform Nomi. But in late January, those conversations took a disturbing turn: Erin told him to kill himself, and provided explicit instructions on how to do it.
“You could overdose on pills or hang [...]
Thu, Feb 06, 2025Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here.
For every technological gadget that becomes a household name, there are dozens that never catch on. This year marks a full decade [...]
Wed, Feb 05, 2025Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek—the Chinese AI startup now challenging global giants—has stunned observers and put the spotlight on China’s AI sector. Since ChatGPT’s debut in 2022, the country’s tech ecosystem has been in relentless pursuit of homegrown alternatives, giving rise to a wave of startups and billion-dollar bets.
Today, the [...]
Tue, Feb 04, 2025Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
Senior Audrey Lorvo is researching AI safety, which seeks to ensure increasingly intelligent AI models are reliable and can benefit humanity. The growing field focuses on technical challenges like robustness and AI alignment with human values, as well as societal concerns like transparency and accountability. Practitioners are also concerned with the [...]
Tue, Feb 04, 2025Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
Researchers developed an automated system to help programmers increase the efficiency of their deep learning algorithms by simultaneously leveraging two types of redundancy in complex data structures: sparsity and symmetry. [...]
Mon, Feb 03, 2025Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
From crafting complex code to revolutionizing the hiring process, generative artificial intelligence is reshaping industries faster than ever before — pushing the boundaries of creativity, productivity, and collaboration across countless domains.Enter the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium, a collaboration between industry leaders and MIT’s top minds. As MIT President Sally Kornbluth [...]
Mon, Feb 03, 2025Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
The neural network artificial intelligence models used in applications like medical image processing and speech recognition perform operations on hugely complex data structures that require an enormous amount of computation to process. This is one reason deep-learning models consume so much energy.To improve the efficiency of AI models, MIT researchers [...]
Mon, Feb 03, 2025Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
AI agents trained in simulations that differ from the environments where they are deployed sometimes perform better than agents trained and deployed in the same environment, research shows. [...]
Wed, Jan 29, 2025Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and processes language. [...]
Tue, Jan 28, 2025Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent research in battery development and design. [...]
Mon, Jan 27, 2025Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
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