An AI challenge only humans can solve
In their new book, “Power and Progress,” Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson ask whether the benefits of AI will be shared widely or feed inequality.
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Joining the battle against health care bias
Leo Anthony Celi invites industry to broaden its focus in gathering and analyzing clinical data for every population.
MIT School of Science announces 2023 Infinite Mile Awards
Seven staff members honored for their dedication to the School of Science and to the Institute.
Thirteen from MIT win 2023 Fulbright fellowships
The Fulbright US Student Program funds opportunities for research, graduate study, and teaching abroad.
New MIT-Denmark collaboration to expand opportunities for global impact
A grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation will allow more MIT interns to connect with innovators in Denmark.
Five MIT faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2023
Joshua Angrist, Gang Chen, Catherine Drennan, Dina Katabi, Gregory Stephanopoulos, and seven additional alumni are recognized by their peers for their outstanding contributions to research.
3 Questions: Jacob Andreas on large language models
The CSAIL scientist describes natural language processing research through state-of-the-art machine-learning models and investigation of how language can enhance other types of artificial intelligence.
Study: AI models fail to reproduce human judgements about rule violations
Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.
Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land
Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.
Using reflections to see the world from new points of view
A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstructions.
Training machines to learn more like humans do
Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.
After Amazon, an ambition to accelerate American manufacturing
Jeff Wilke SM '93, former CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business, brings his LGO playbook to his new mission of revitalizing manufacturing in the U.S.
A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies
Richard J. Samuels steps down as director; Evan Lieberman is named his successor.
Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine
A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.
Q&A: Introducing Axim Collaborative, a new MIT-Harvard online ed venture
CEO Stephanie Khurana describes the nonprofit, whose work is aimed at those without easy access to degree and credential programs.