3 Questions: Jacob Andreas on large language models
Words, data, and algorithms combine,
An article about LLMs, so divine.
A glimpse into a linguistic world, ...
Joining the battle against health care bias
Medical researchers are awash in a tsunami of clinical data. But we need major changes in how we gather, share, and a ...
A better way to study ocean currents
To study ocean currents, scientists release GPS-tagged buoys in the ocean and record their velocities to reconstruct ...
J-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients
Today, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced its ninth round of seed grants to support ...
Is medicine ready for AI? Doctors, computer scientists, and policymakers are cautiously optimistic
The advent of generative artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT has prompted renewed calls for AI in health care ...
Researchers use AI to identify similar materials in images
A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are compos ...
Helping robots handle fluids
Imagine you’re enjoying a picnic by a riverbank on a windy day. A gust of wind accidentally catches your paper napkin ...
Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working
Despite their enormous size and power, today’s artificial intelligence systems routinely fail to distinguish be ...
Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections
Using an artificial intelligence algorithm, researchers at MIT and McMaster University have identified a new antibiot ...
Celebrating the impact of IDSS
The “interdisciplinary approach” is something that has been lauded for decades for its ability to break down silos an ...