Three Spanish MIT physics postdocs receive Botton Foundation fellowships

Three Spanish MIT postdocs, Luis Antonio Benítez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, and Fernando Romero López, were chosen by the Department of Physics as the first cohort of Mauricio and Carlota Botton Foundation Fellows.

This year’s recipients are provided with a one-year stipend …

Mark Zuckerberg: AI will be built into all of Meta’s products

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the extent of the company’s AI investments during an internal company meeting.

The meeting included discussions about new products, such as chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp that can converse with different personas. Additionally, Meta announced …

Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems and challenges. While their adoption, particularly with the rise of AI, is reshaping nearly every industry sector, discipline, and …

New model offers a way to speed up drug discovery

Huge libraries of drug compounds may hold potential treatments for a variety of diseases, such as cancer or heart disease. Ideally, scientists would like to experimentally test each of these compounds against all possible targets, but doing that kind of …

Exploring Generative AI in conversational experiences: An Introduction with Amazon Lex, Langchain, and SageMaker Jumpstart

Customers expect quick and efficient service from businesses in today’s fast-paced world. But providing excellent customer service can be significantly challenging when the volume of inquiries outpaces the human resources employed to address them. However, businesses can meet this challenge …

MIT researchers make language models scalable self-learners

Socrates once said: “It is not the size of a thing, but the quality that truly matters. For it is in the nature of substance, not its volume, that true value is found.” Does size always matter for large language…

UK will host global AI summit to address potential risks

The UK has announced that it will host a global summit this autumn to address the most significant risks associated with AI.

The decision comes after meetings between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, US President Joe Biden, Congress, and business leaders.…

Q&A: Gabriela Sá Pessoa on Brazilian politics, human rights in the Amazon, and AI

Gabriela Sá Pessoa is a journalist passionate about the intersection of human rights and climate change. She came to MIT from The Washington Post, where she worked from her home country of Brazil as a news researcher reporting on the

AI Task Force adviser: AI will threaten humans in two years

An artificial intelligence task force adviser to the UK prime minister has a stark warning: AI will threaten humans in two years.

The adviser, Matt Clifford, said in an interview with TalkTV that humans have a narrow window of two …

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