Like having a personal healthcare coach in your pocket

New apps for cancer patients, cannabis users, others make use of algorithms that continually customize support

Harvard Gazette • harvard
April 9, 2025 ~6 min

Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?

A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 9, 2025 ~8 min


What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog

Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the idea into practice in the 1980s and set the stage for the likes of ChatGPT.

Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan • conversation
April 7, 2025 ~7 min

New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports

The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 4, 2025 ~8 min

Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges

This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 2, 2025 ~7 min

Shoes that can warn you of injuries? How wearable technology is transforming foot care

Smart insoles and socks equipped with sensors and AI are transforming foot health.

Craig Gwynne, Senior Lecturer in Podiatry, Cardiff Metropolitan University • conversation
March 27, 2025 ~6 min

How rat watching can yield benefits for people

New AI method lets researchers get better handle on brain-behavior link, may offer insights into disorders like autism

Harvard Gazette • harvard
March 25, 2025 ~6 min

What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up

When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.

Katelyn Mei, Ph.D. Student in Information Science, University of Washington • conversation
March 21, 2025 ~7 min


AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches

Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
March 21, 2025 ~8 min

Fully AI driven weather prediction system could start revolution in forecasting

A new AI weather prediction system, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 20, 2025 ~6 min

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