Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created... Read more »
Without that context, AI can generate answers quickly but still make the wrong decision, says Irfan Khan, president and chief product officer of SAP Data & Analytics. “AI is incredibly good at... Read more »
Listen to the session or watch below Watch a special edition of Roundtables simulcast live from EmTech AI, MIT Technology Review’s signature conference for AI leadership. Subscribers got an exclusive first look... Read more »
While service dogs might be best known for guiding the blind, Canine Companions trains dogs to do such things as open doors for wheelchair users or alert deaf people to doorbells, fire... Read more »
“It uses infrared light that’s barely visible compared to the bright flash of fundus photography [another common method of eye imaging] and provides a lot more information—three-dimensional rather than two-dimensional information—at higher... Read more »
Hannes Stärk, the fourth-year PhD student at CSAIL who built BoltzGen, says the model works because it actually learns—drawing inferences from the data it is trained with and then producing novel ideas... Read more »
In typical conditions, the atmosphere’s layers get colder with altitude, and a heat wave that warms the air at ground level will trigger convection: The warmer, lighter air will rise, prompting colder... Read more »
The researchers used these structures to perform a simple form of matrix vector multiplication, the fundamental mathematical technique machine-learning models like large language models use to process information and make predictions. The... Read more »
Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that... Read more »
How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln... Read more »