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Tapping the wisdom of human-centered fields

In a practical sense, it’s designed to help our scholars in human­-centered disciplines “go big.” MITHIC will give them the resources to pursue their most innovative ideas within their discipline, create opportunities... Read more »

Forging the digital future

It worked out, of course. He headed to Cambridge and gravitated to MIT’s AI Lab in Technology Square, where he first worked on speech recognition and then transitioned into computer vision, at... Read more »

The Download: trustworthy humanoid robots, and Anduril’s latest project

The world might seem to be on the brink of a humanoid-robot heyday. New breakthroughs in artificial intelligence promise the type of capable, general-purpose robots previously seen only in science fiction—robots that... Read more »

Will we ever trust robots?

Shariq Hashme, a former employee of both OpenAI and Scale AI, entered his robotics firm Prosper into the humanoid arms race in 2021.DAVID VINTINER “A lot of companies that do that kind... Read more »

Enabling human-centric support with generative AI

Generative AI is becoming a key component of business operations and customer service interactions today. According to Salesforce research, three out of five workers (61%) either currently use or plan to use... Read more »

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

“Enterprises are trying to rush to figure out how to implement or incorporate generative AI into their business to gain efficiencies,” says Will Fritcher, deputy chief client officer at TP. “But instead... Read more »

Puzzle Corner September/October 2024 bonus solutions

David Dewan came up with this solution (which Richard Lipes also found on Wikipedia): Let N be any integer not divisible by 2 or 5. Consider repunits R1 = 1, R2 = 11,... Read more »

The Download: shaking up neural networks, and the rise of weight-loss drugs

Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that underpin most modern AI systems. That’s according to work presented... Read more »

Drugs like Ozempic now make up 5% of prescriptions in the US

The anecdotes are everywhere: A person on a weight-loss drug finds hunger isn’t the only craving that seems to stop. Those are the types of clues Eli Lilly’s CEO, David Ricks, says... Read more »

The next generation of neural networks could live in hardware

Once the network has been trained, though, things get way, way cheaper. Petersen compared his logic-gate networks with a cohort of other ultra-efficient networks, such as binary neural networks, which use simplified... Read more »