
Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center (opens in a new tab)
An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.
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Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.
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An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.
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Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.
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A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to feed the bots.
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Scientists have created a programmable optical chip that can slow light on demand, giving engineers far greater control over how optical signals propagate through a circuit. The technology could provide the delays, synchronization, and buffering functions needed to make light-ba…
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A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.
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