Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages
When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going…
Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI
Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents…
Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep
The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological…
Improving understanding with language
When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside…
Making the case for curiosity-driven science
“The thing that really struck me when I came to MIT and strikes me every single day is the stuff…
Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models
In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if…
The MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches to shape the future of AI and quantum computing
The following is a joint announcement by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and IBM. IBM and MIT today announced…
Enabling privacy-preserving AI training on everyday devices
A new method developed by MIT researchers can accelerate a privacy-preserving artificial intelligence training method by about 81 percent. This…
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent…
MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original…