Reasoning and reliability in AI
PhD students interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab look to improve natural language usage.
Computer science and technology
Stratospheric safety standards: How aviation could steer regulation of AI in health
An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today.
Multiple AI models help robots execute complex plans more transparently
A multimodal system uses models trained on language, vision, and action data to help robots develop and execute plans for household, construction, and manufacturing tasks.
Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications
MIT researchers propose “PEDS” method for developing models of complex physical systems in mechanics, optics, thermal transport, fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, climate, and more.
AI agents help explain other AI systems
MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks.
Complex, unfamiliar sentences make the brain’s language network work harder
A new study finds that language regions in the left hemisphere light up when reading uncommon sentences, while straightforward sentences elicit little response.
MIT in the media: 2023 in review
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
A flexible solution to help artists improve animation
This new method draws on 200-year-old geometric foundations to give artists control over the appearance of animated characters.
Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI
“Minimum viewing time” benchmark gauges image recognition complexity for AI systems by measuring the time needed for accurate human identification.
Three MIT students selected as inaugural MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.