Researchers show that even the best-performing large language models don’t form a true model of the world and its rules, and can thus fail unexpectedly on similar tasks.
Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.
MIT engineers’ algorithm may have wide impact, from forecasting climate to projecting population growth to designing efficient aircraft.
Associate Professor Julian Shun develops high-performance algorithms and frameworks for large-scale graph processing.
MIT CSAIL researchers created an AI-powered method for low-discrepancy sampling, which uniformly distributes data points to boost simulation accuracy.
New dataset of “illusory” faces reveals differences between human and algorithmic face detection, links to animal face recognition, and a formula predicting where people most often perceive faces.
A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
Researchers argue that in health care settings, “responsible use” labels could ensure AI systems are deployed appropriately.
MIT researchers speed up a novel AI-based estimator for medication manufacturing by 60 times.
Researchers find large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.
“Co-LLM” algorithm helps a general-purpose AI model collaborate with an expert large language model by combining the best parts of both answers, leading to more factual responses.
“ScribblePrompt” is an interactive AI framework that can efficiently highlight anatomical structures across different medical scans, assisting medical workers to delineate regions of interest and abnormalities.
A new algorithm solves complicated partial differential equations by breaking them down into simpler problems, potentially guiding computer graphics and geometry processing.
Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography.