#A.I. Imagine you’re tasked with sending a team of football players onto a field to assess the condition of the grass (a likely task for them, of course). If you pick their positions randomly, they might cluster together in some areas while complet...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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Using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language models #AI
#A.I. Imagine you and a friend are playing a game where your goal is to communicate secret messages to each other using only cryptic sentences. Your friend's job is to guess the secret message behind your sentences. Sometimes, you give clues direct...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Using AI to discover stiff and tough microstructures #AI
#A.I. Every time you smoothly drive from point A to point B, you're not just enjoying the convenience of your car, but also the sophisticated engineering that makes it safe and reliable. Beyond its comfort and protective features lies a lesser-know...
Monday, November 20, 2023
Synthetic imagery sets new bar in AI training efficiency #AI
#A.I. Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than just pixels. By using synthetic images to train machine learning models, a team of scientists recently surpassed results obtained from traditional “r...
Thursday, February 2, 2023
World Wide Web Consortium is now a public-interest nonprofit organization #AI
#A.I. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which leads development of the technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the web remains open, accessible, and interoperable, officially launched as a public-interest nonprofit organization as of J...
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Ensuring AI works with the right dose of curiosity #AI
#A.I. It’s a dilemma as old as time. Friday night has rolled around, and you’re trying to pick a restaurant for dinner. Should you visit your most beloved watering hole or try a new establishment, in the hopes of discovering something superior? Pot...