Staying stable
Whether they walk on two, four, or six legs, animals maintain stability by monitoring their body position and correcting errors with every step.
Robots that spare warehouse workers the heavy lifting
Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed machines that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistic centers.
With insect-like speed and agility, the tiny robot could someday aid in search-and-rescue missions.
Student Spotlight: Diego Temkin
Senior Diego Temkin is double majoring in 6-3, Computer Science and Engineering, and 11, Urban Planning. The McAllen, TX native is involved with MIT’s Dormitory Council (DormCon), helps to maintain Hydrant (formerly Firehose)/CourseRoad, and is both a member of the Student Information Processing Board (MIT’s oldest computing club) and a SuperUROP scholar.
Researchers discover a shortcoming that makes LLMs less reliable
Large language models can learn to mistakenly link certain sentence patterns with specific topics — and may then repeat these patterns instead of reasoning.
MIT scientists debut a generative AI model that could create molecules addressing hard-to-treat diseases
BoltzGen generates protein binders for any biological target from scratch, expanding AI’s reach from understanding biology toward engineering it.
Bigger datasets aren’t always better
MIT researchers developed a way to identify the smallest dataset that guarantees optimal solutions to complex problems.
A Sufficient Answer
MIT Sophomore Wins Elie Wiesel Prize for Writing on Ethics of Catastrophe
Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence
Associate Professor Phillip Isola studies the ways in which intelligent machines “think,” in an effort to safely integrate AI into human society.
Teaching large language models how to absorb new knowledge
With a new method developed at MIT, an LLM behaves more like a student, writing notes that it studies to memorize new information.