Machine-Learning System Uses Physics to Identify Habitable Planets
As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for…
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Dramatically Improves Medical Imaging Quality
A radiologist’s ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generate the best quality…
MIT Engineers Develop Autonomous “Selfie Drone”
If you’re a rock climber, hiker, runner, dancer, or anyone who likes recording themselves while in motion, a personal drone companion can now do all…
New Chip Reduces Neural Networks’ Power Consumption by 95 Percent
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors…
Engineers Develop Automated Process for Discovering Optimal Structure for Metamaterials
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They’ll identify a biological material that has some desirable trait — such as the…
MIT Launches Intelligence Quest To Advance Human and Machine Intelligence Research
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of technological…
Is This New Design a Major Step Toward Portable AI Devices?
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can’t be beat. Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons….
MIT Develops a New Machine-Learning System for Analyzing Materials
Last month, three MIT materials scientists and their colleagues published a paper describing a new artificial-intelligence system that can pore through scientific papers and extract…
New Computer Systems Seek to Replicate Human Intelligence
Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Humor
We have a long history of yelling at our machines — cars that break down, televisions broadcasting our failing teams. But now, our machines understand us. And…
New Technique Illuminates the Inner Workings of AI Systems
Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in…
TrueNorth Computer Chip Emulates Human Cognition
Imagine working in an office where, once you’ve finished one task, you had to wait until everyone in all the other cubicles completed the tasks…
JPL Develops A.I. Piloted Drones for Race Against Human Pilot
JPL engineers put together a drone race to find which is faster – a drone operated by a human or one operated by artificial intelligence….
New Artificial Intelligence System To Aid In Materials Fabrication
Using a new artificial-intelligence system that would pore through research papers to deduce “recipes” for producing particular materials, scientists hope to close the materials-science automation…
New System for Performing “Tensor Algebra” Offers Faster Big-Data Analysis
A new MIT computer system speeds computations involving “sparse tensors,” multidimensional data arrays that consist mostly of zeroes. At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference…
MIT Engineers Design “Peel-and-Go” Printable Structures That Fold Themselves
Engineers from MIT have developed a new method to produce printable structures that begin to fold up as soon as they are peeled off the…
New General-Purpose Technique Sheds Light on Inner Workings of Neural Nets
Researchers from MIT are set to present a new general-purpose technique for making sense of neural networks trained to perform natural-language-processing tasks, in which computers…
“Data Science Machine” Replaces Human Intuition with Algorithms
Engineers from MIT have developed a new system that replaces human intuition with algorithms. The “Data Science Machine” outperformed 615 of 906 human teams in…