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MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.
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A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely ne…
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Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people who built the LLM) have little idea exactly how it came up with that specific an…
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This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still lim…
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A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.
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Studies suggest AI can weaken learning when it replaces effort, but tools that guide rather than answer may help people keep their skills.
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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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A small study suggests emotional fit, not perfect accuracy, may make chatbot versions of dead loved ones feel real.
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