MIT-Mexico Program fosters cross-border collaboration
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With inspiration from “Tetris,” MIT researchers develop a better radiation detector
The device, based on simple tetromino shapes, could determine the direction and distance of a radiation source, with fewer detector pixels.
A faster, better way to prevent an AI chatbot from giving toxic responses
Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output.
Extracting hydrogen from rocks
Iwnetim Abate aims to stimulate natural hydrogen production underground, potentially unearthing a new path to a cheap, carbon-free energy source.
When an antibiotic fails: MIT scientists are using AI to target “sleeper” bacteria
Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes.
Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers
MIT scientists have tackled key obstacles to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for the next generation of energy-efficient computers.
A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins
MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.
Does technology help or hurt employment?
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.
Shining a light on oil fields to make them more sustainable
Amplified Industries, founded by Sebastien Mannai SM ’14, PhD ’18, helps oil field operators eliminate spills and stop methane leaks.
MIT launches Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future
New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund.
Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more.
Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Researchers demonstrate a technique that can be used to probe a model to see what it knows about new subjects.
MIT announces financial aid and tuition rates for the 2024–25 academic year
Financial aid increased, more than offsetting a 3.75 percent increase in tuition.
AI generates high-quality images 30 times faster in a single step
Novel method makes tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E-3 faster by simplifying the image-generating process to a single step while maintaining or enhancing image quality.
Optimizing nuclear fuels for next-generation reactors
While working to nurture scientific talent in his native Nigeria, Assistant Professor Ericmoore Jossou is setting his sights on using materials science and computation to design robust nuclear components.