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October 25, 2021
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of...
October 18, 2021
When asked to classify odors, artificial neural networks adopt a structure that closely resembles that of the brain’s olfactory circuitry.
by Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Using machine learning, a...
by Jennifer Michalowski | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Using machine learning, a...
October 18, 2021
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Everyone knows the shortest distance between two points is a...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Everyone knows the shortest distance between two points is a...
September 29, 2021
The firm worked with UK weather forecasters to create a model that was better at making short term predictions than existing systems.
by Will Douglas Heaven
First protein folding, now weather forecasting: London-based AI...
by Will Douglas Heaven
First protein folding, now weather forecasting: London-based AI...
September 20, 2021
Sanmay has worked with the US Treasury department on machine learning approaches to credit risk analysis, and occasionally consults in the areas of technology and finance.
“Avoid incrementalism and the desire to measure the...
“Avoid incrementalism and the desire to measure the...
July 22, 2021
AlphaFold neural network produced a ‘totally transformative’ database of more than 350,000 structures from Homo sapiens and 20 model organisms.
Ewen Callaway
The human genome holds the instructions for more than 20,000 proteins...
July 9, 2021
Do we need to understand the brain to make progress in artificial intelligence? In the first podcast in the series, Stuart Russell and Tomaso Poggio contrast “deep learning” with our own organic neural networks. In an age of...
July 9, 2021
by Hu Min
World Artificial Intelligence Conference
More than 100 scholars, professors and experts in artificial intelligence fields brainstormed the development trends of cognitive intelligence and the Conscious Turing Machine at...
World Artificial Intelligence Conference
More than 100 scholars, professors and experts in artificial intelligence fields brainstormed the development trends of cognitive intelligence and the Conscious Turing Machine at...
July 1, 2021
Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when we see a very familiar face, like that of our grandmothers. But the proposed "grandmother...
June 29, 2021
The challenges of tackling this question are so daunting that few have tried. But Heather Kosakowski, a PhD candidate at MIT, is determined to find answers.
by Rachel Fritts, SM ’20
It‘s Ursula’s third time in the functional MRI...
by Rachel Fritts, SM ’20
It‘s Ursula’s third time in the functional MRI...