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How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, and play? Are there pathways that academics, practitioners, innovators, and entrepreneurs ought to be pursuing to ensure that the largest share of the benefits associated with new technologies uplift the most marginalized populations? What…
David H. Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, has been recognized as one of two 2023 NOMIS Distinguished Scientists for his significant contributions and ongoing research work to understand the effects of technological change and globalization on jobs and earnings prospects for workers. Anne Brunet of Stanford University is the other winner for this…
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has generated a lot of buzz, with some predicting it will lead to an idyllic utopia and others warning it will bring the end of humanity. But speculation about where AI technology is going, while important, can also drown out important conversations about how we should be handling the…
By combining several activities into one instruction, instruction tuning enhances generalization to new tasks. Such capacity to respond to open-ended questions has contributed to the recent chatbot explosion since ChatGPT 2. Visual encoders like CLIP-ViT have recently been added to conversation agents as part of visual instruction-tuned models, allowing for human-agent interaction based on pictures….
With recent technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, Large Language Models, or LLMs in short, have become increasingly prevalent. Over the past few years, researchers have made rapid advancements in solving several complex language-related tasks by training these models on vast amounts of data in order to comprehend intricate language patterns, generate coherent responses, etc. One…
In a significant step towards enhancing accessibility and comprehension of complex charts and graphs, a team of researchers from MIT has created a groundbreaking dataset called VisText. The dataset aims to revolutionize automatic chart captioning systems by training machine-learning models to generate precise and semantically rich captions that accurately describe data trends and intricate patterns….
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are the trending fields of today’s time. With the immense progress being made in AI, new innovations are transforming the way humans interact with machines. Reasoning in human intelligence is a significant part of Artificial Intelligence. A number of theorems-proving approaches have been researched, such as Automated theorem proving (ATP),…
MIT’s School of Engineering and global health care company Novo Nordisk has announced the launch of a multi-year program to support postdoctoral fellows conducting research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and data science with life sciences. The MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Postdoctoral Fellows Program will welcome its first cohort of up to 10 postdocs…
How will advances in computing transform human society? MIT students contemplated this impending question as part of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize — an essay contest in which they were challenged to imagine ways that computing technologies could improve our lives, as well as the pitfalls and dangers associated with them. Offered for…
In an exciting breakthrough in the Chinese language AI market, Baidu, the renowned search engine provider, has unveiled its latest model, Ernie 3.5. A large Chinese language model that has been claimed to surpass its counterparts, ChatGPT3 and even GPT4 by Baidu, in several Chinese language capabilities and uses cases. This move by Baidu has…
