Artificial intelligence - MIT News
4 days ago · Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do. Inspired by the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The …
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact - MIT News
Jan 17, 2025 · Plus, generative AI models have an especially short shelf-life, driven by rising demand for new AI applications. Companies release new models every few weeks, so the …
New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding
Nov 25, 2024 · The AI-only method, in contrast, generated images of flooding in places where flooding is not physically possible. The team’s method is a proof-of-concept, meant to …
What do we know about the economics of AI? - MIT News
Dec 6, 2024 · By contrast, in one paper, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI,” published in the August issue of Economic Policy, Acemoglu estimates that over the next decade, AI will …
Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a …
Nov 5, 2024 · The researchers focused on a type of generative AI model known as a transformer, which forms the backbone of LLMs like GPT-4. Transformers are trained on a massive amount …
Graph-based AI model maps the future of innovation
Nov 12, 2024 · The AI model found unexpected similarities between biological materials and “Symphony No. 9,” suggesting that both follow patterns of complexity. “Similar to how cells in …
Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI. - MIT News
Dec 19, 2024 · “By focusing AI models on ‘thinking’ in such a manner, we can leapfrog beyond conventional methods and explore more creative uses of AI.” For the most recent paper, the …
AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self
Oct 1, 2024 · The AI system uses this information to create what the researchers call “future self memories” which provide a backstory the model pulls from when interacting with the user. For …
Q&A: The climate impact of generative AI - MIT News
Jan 13, 2025 · A: Generative AI uses machine learning (ML) to create new content, like images and text, based on data that is inputted into the ML system. At the LLSC we design and build …
MIT researchers advance automated interpretability in AI models
Jul 23, 2024 · They developed “MAIA” (Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent), a system that automates a variety of neural network interpretability tasks using a vision-language model …