Today! Wed., April 10 @ 5:45 pm: Attend a free film screening for the new documentary, The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem, followed by Q&A w/ film directors. In the new SCC building, 45-230.
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MIT Anthropology mit philosophy & MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

A new technique teaches a large language model to perform a safety check on an AI chatbot so it doesn’t give toxic responses. “Our work is an attempt to reduce the human effort to ensure a safer and trustworthy AI future,” Pulkit Agrawal says. mitsha.re/46Jp50RcfRg

Wed., April 10 @ 5:45 pm: Attend a free film screening for the new documentary, The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem, followed by Q&A w/ film directors Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones. Takes place in the lecture hall in the new SCC building, 45-230. bit.ly/AntisocialNtwk

Latest issue of MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing explores if generative AI can do scientific research, the interpretability of machine learning, and a community-centered study of text-to-image models in South Asia.
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Unlike humans, AI does not have peripheral vision. But a new image dataset that simulates it in machine-learning models improved their ability to detect objects in the visual periphery, helping the models see the world more like humans do. mitsha.re/qgvC50QVBAK

Wednesday, April 10: Attend a free film screening for the new documentary, The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem, and Q&A w/ film directors Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones moderated by Harvard anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. bit.ly/AntisocialNtwk

The #AICures2024 agenda has been finalized and we couldn't be more thrilled with our speaker lineup featuring 30+ speakers across Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mass General Brigham, and more! Tickets are going fast — register ASAP to save your spot: mitmgb.ai

For #PiDay this year, we turned numerals seen around campus into an irrationally beautiful collage. Best wishes to everyone for a day filled with pi(e)!

Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT

Videos from our recent Expanding Horizons in Computing series are now live! Check out talks by MIT faculty on exciting areas of computing and AI, from security, intelligence, and deep learning to design, sustainability, and policy. bit.ly/ExpandingHoriz…

We are excited to be organizing a Symposium on the Impact of Generative AI in the Physical Sciences next Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15! Join us on the 8th Floor of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing for a great lineup of speakers and panelists. Zoom link available soon. iaifi.org/generative-ai-…

Our Early Action deadline for our AI & Health Summer High School Bootcamp is in less than a month and only 25 spots are available! High schoolers who are excited about AI in health are encouraged to apply and tell us their vision of healthcare's future: jclinic.mit.edu/events/high-sc…

.Kalyan Veeramachaneni, principal investigator of the Data to AI Group at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), will lead a project to model and test new smart grid technologies for use in rural areas. news.mit.edu/2024/generativ…

Tamara Broderick uses statistical approaches to understand and quantify uncertainty in data, which can affect study results. “The reality is that we live in a noisy world, and we can’t always get exactly the data that we want,” she says. mitsha.re/HXoG50QJVc4

By breaking an intractable problem into smaller chunks, a deep-learning technique developed by researchers including IDSS faculty Cathy Wu identifies the optimal areas for thinning out traffic in a warehouse.
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Innovative AI system from MIT CSAIL melds simulations and physical testing to forge materials with newfound durability and flexibility for diverse engineering uses. MIT EECS MIT School of Engineering MIT Schwarzman College of Computing news.mit.edu/2024/using-ai-…

Register now for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Cambridge conference, taking place Friday, March 8th! Featuring an all-female lineup of speakers from academia and industry talking about the latest in data science-related research. widscambridge.org
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2.21 at 4 PM ET (online): Building the Future of AI with Human Intelligence and Ethics bit.ly/48hNCBD MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

IDSS faculty Sherrie Wang and team used machine learning to analyze satellite and roadside images of areas where small farms predominate and agricultural data are sparse.
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Computer scientists have devised a technique that enables an AI chatbot to conduct a day-long conversation with a human collaborator without slowing down or crashing — no matter how much text the conversation involves. mitsha.re/fTpm50QACVy

How can we regulate #AI if we don't fully understand it? By focusing on outcomes, as other regulations do, argues Daniel Huttenlocher, Dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Watch the full panel from our launch event: youtube.com/watch?v=Y1WNae…

Read the AI policy briefs: computing.mit.edu/ai-policy-brie…