X Blocks Taylor Swift Search after ‘Deepfake’ Image Spread

VOA Learning English • voa
Jan. 29, 2024 ~3 min

Pictures have been teaching doctors medicine for centuries − a medical illustrator explains how

From body snatching to Photoshop and virtual reality, the techniques of medical illustration have evolved. But its essential role in showing clinicians how to care for the body continues today.

James A. Perkins, Distinguished Professor of Medical Illustration, Rochester Institute of Technology • conversation
Jan. 24, 2024 ~10 min


High-temperature superconductors with a twist

Such a device could theoretically fuel fledging industries like quantum computing, which rely on fleeting mechanical phenomena that are difficult to sustain.

Anne J. Manning • harvard
Jan. 9, 2024 ~4 min

We used AI and satellite imagery to map ocean activities that take place out of sight, including fishing, shipping and energy development

A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.

Jennifer Raynor, Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison • conversation
Jan. 3, 2024 ~10 min

Image recognition accuracy: An unseen challenge confounding today’s AI

“Minimum viewing time” benchmark gauges image recognition complexity for AI systems by measuring the time needed for accurate human identification.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Dec. 15, 2023 ~11 min

AI model favors wealthier, western stuff

OpenAI's CLIP performs poorly on images that portray low-income and non-Western lifestyles, research finds.

Kate McAlpine-Michigan • futurity
Dec. 13, 2023 ~6 min

AI image generator serves up racial, gender stereotypes

What does a person look like? If you use the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion to get answers, too frequently you'll see images of light-skinned men.

Stefan Milne-U. Washington • futurity
Nov. 30, 2023 ~8 min

Elly Nedivi receives 2023 Kreig Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award

The neuroscientist is recognized for her ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable the brain to adapt to experience.

David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory • mit
Nov. 29, 2023 ~3 min


A new way to see the activity inside a living cell

Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
Nov. 28, 2023 ~8 min

How AI 'sees' the world – what happened when we trained a deep learning model to identify poverty

Researchers fed an advanced AI algorithm with satellite photographs to see if it could identify areas of poverty and it interpreted the data through abstract images.

Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Professor, School of Information Technology, Halmstad University • conversation
Nov. 27, 2023 ~8 min

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