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Modeling relationships to solve complex problems efficiently

The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could think of “invisible threads” as tying together related objects, like the homes on a delivery driver’s route, or more nebulous entities, such as transactions in a financial network or users in a social network.Computer scientist Julian Shun...

Fri Oct 4, 2024 07:02
How AI is improving simulations with smarter sampling techniques

Imagine you’re tasked with sending a team of football players onto a field to assess the condition of the grass (a likely task for them, of course). If you pick their positions randomly, they might cluster together in some areas while completely neglecting others. But if you give them a strategy, like spreading out uniformly across the field, you might...

Wed Oct 2, 2024 18:59
AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects?

In 1994, Florida jewelry designer Diana Duyser discovered what she believed to be the Virgin Mary’s image in a grilled cheese sandwich, which she preserved and later auctioned for $28,000. But how much do we really understand about pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing faces and patterns in objects when they aren’t really there? A new study from the...

Mon Sep 30, 2024 16:09
Enhancing LLM collaboration for smarter, more efficient solutions

Ever been asked a question you only knew part of the answer to? To give a more informed response, your best move would be to phone a friend with more knowledge on the subject.This collaborative process can also help large language models (LLMs) improve their accuracy. Still, it’s been difficult to teach LLMs to recognize when they should collaborate...

Mon Sep 16, 2024 23:34
A fast and flexible approach to help doctors annotate medical scans

To the untrained eye, a medical image like an MRI or X-ray appears to be a murky collection of black-and-white blobs. It can be a struggle to decipher where one structure (like a tumor) ends and another begins.  When trained to understand the boundaries of biological structures, AI systems can segment (or delineate) regions of interest that doctors...

Mon Sep 9, 2024 23:37
Sam Madden named faculty head of computer science in EECS

Sam Madden, the College of Computing Distinguished Professor of Computing at MIT, has been named the new faculty head of computer science in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), effective Aug. 1.Madden succeeds Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and prolific computer scientist, who passed away in June.“Sam’s research...

Wed Sep 4, 2024 23:46

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