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June 12, 2023
Washington, D.C.– Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today spoke on the Senate floor highlighting this week’s Senators-only briefing on Artificial Intelligence, the first of three upcoming briefings on AI. Below are...
June 5, 2023
Using insights into how people intuit others’ emotions, researchers have designed a model that approximates this aspect of human social intelligence.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
When interacting with another person, you likely...
May 4, 2023
Despite the eye-catching claim that large AI language models like ChatGPT have achieved theory of mind, some experts find their abilities lackluster.
By Cody Cottier
When you converse with the latest chatbots, it’s easy to feel...
April 29, 2023
by Elizabeth Elkind
EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is launching an effort to get members of Congress educated on artificial intelligence, as the rapidly advancing technology enters more facets of everyday life and...
April 21, 2023
A new study tests an alternative to external stimulation for measuring when subjects lose and regain responsiveness during sedation and anesthesia.
David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Studies of...
March 27, 2023
by Jennifer Michalowski
Artificial intelligence seems to have gotten a lot smarter recently. AI technologies are increasingly integrated into our lives — improving our weather forecasts, finding efficient routes through traffic,...
March 10, 2023
Flying in the face of recent rival studies, these scientists point to generalization as key to order-of-magnitude performance gains
by Gareth Halfacree
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brown...
March 8, 2023
MIT researchers uncover the structural properties and dynamics of deep classifiers, offering novel explanations for optimization, generalization, and approximation in deep networks.
A new study from researchers at MIT and Brown...
February 28, 2023
It teamed up with biometrics research company MindProber to study its users.
By Charlotte Hu
Think about the music and podcasts you listen to, and how they affect your mood. If streaming audio content makes you happier, you’re...
Prof. Emery Brown in a blue blazer in front of white and yellow geometric hallways
February 21, 2023
By unlocking the secrets of anesthesia, Professor Emery Brown could help shed light on brain diseases, hibernation, and possibly even human consciousness.
By Adam Piore
Last spring, Brown stepped down after 10 years as co-...

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