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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes nine new faculty

New professors join anthropology, economics, history, linguistics, music and theater arts, and philosophy departments, as well as the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.

August 1, 2024

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Precision home robots learn with real-to-sim-to-real

CSAIL researchers introduce a novel approach allowing robots to be trained in simulations of scanned home environments, paving the way for customized household automation accessible to anyone.

July 31, 2024

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Method prevents an AI model from being overconfident about wrong answers

More efficient than other approaches, the “Thermometer” technique could help someone know when they should trust a large language model.

July 31, 2024

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Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

Domitilla Del Vecchio and Themis Sapsis of MechE and Mehrdad Jazayeri of BCS will each receive up to $3 million for blue-sky research.

July 24, 2024

Dice fall to the ground and glowing lines connect them. The dice become nodes in a stylized machine-learning model.

Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness

Introducing structured randomization into decisions based on machine-learning model predictions can address inherent uncertainties while maintaining efficiency.

July 24, 2024

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MIT researchers advance automated interpretability in AI models

MAIA is a multimodal agent that can iteratively design experiments to better understand various components of AI systems.

July 23, 2024

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Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2024-25 fellows

Journalists covering key science issues around the globe will join the MIT community in August.

July 23, 2024

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Large language models don’t behave like people, even though we may expect them to

A new study shows someone’s beliefs about an LLM play a significant role in the model’s performance and are important for how it is deployed.

July 23, 2024

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AI model identifies certain breast tumor stages likely to progress to invasive cancer

The model could help clinicians assess breast cancer stage and ultimately help in reducing overtreatment.

July 22, 2024

In between two mountains, an illustrated drone is shown in various positions including a stable position at center. A digital gauge labeled "stability" has all 7 bars filled

Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

Neural network controllers provide complex robots with stability guarantees, paving the way for the safer deployment of autonomous vehicles and industrial machines.

July 17, 2024

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AI method radically speeds predictions of materials’ thermal properties

The approach could help engineers design more efficient energy-conversion systems and faster microelectronic devices, reducing waste heat.

July 16, 2024

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How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

A new technique enables users to compare several large models and choose the one that works best for their task.

July 16, 2024

Marking a milestone: Dedication ceremony celebrates the new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building

Members of the MIT community, supporters, and guests commemorate the opening of the new college headquarters.

July 12, 2024

A cartoon android recites an answer to a math problem from a textbook in one panel and reasons about that same answer in another

Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated

New CSAIL research highlights how LLMs excel in familiar scenarios but struggle in novel ones, questioning their true reasoning abilities versus reliance on memorization.

July 11, 2024

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When to trust an AI model

More accurate uncertainty estimates could help users decide about how and when to use machine-learning models in the real world.

July 11, 2024

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Precision home robots learn with real-to-sim-to-real

Method prevents an AI model from being overconfident about wrong answers

Three MIT professors named 2024 Vannevar Bush Fellows

Study: When allocating scarce resources with AI, randomization can improve fairness

MIT researchers advance automated interpretability in AI models

Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2024-25 fellows

Large language models don’t behave like people, even though we may expect them to

AI model identifies certain breast tumor stages likely to progress to invasive cancer

Creating and verifying stable AI-controlled systems in a rigorous and flexible way

AI method radically speeds predictions of materials’ thermal properties

How to assess a general-purpose AI model’s reliability before it’s deployed

Marking a milestone: Dedication ceremony celebrates the new MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building

Reasoning skills of large language models are often overestimated

When to trust an AI model

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