Hallucinating to better text translation

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
June 6, 2022 ~10 min

SMART researchers enable early-stage detection of microbial contamination in cell therapy

Rapid and accurate analytical test method enhances the production of high-quality cell therapy products.

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology • mit
May 31, 2022 ~10 min


Artificial intelligence system learns concepts shared across video, audio, and text

A machine-learning model can identify the action in a video clip and label it, without the help of humans.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 4, 2022 ~7 min

A one-up on motion capture

A new neural network approach captures the characteristics of a physical system’s dynamic motion from video, regardless of rendering configuration or image differences.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
April 29, 2022 ~9 min

Does this artificial intelligence think like a human?

A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
April 6, 2022 ~7 min

Generating new molecules with graph grammar

An efficient machine-learning method uses chemical knowledge to create a learnable grammar with production rules to build synthesizable monomers and polymers.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
April 1, 2022 ~7 min

Machines that see the world more like humans do

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 8, 2021 ~10 min

Q&A: More-sustainable concrete with machine learning

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab researchers aim to design concrete mixtures that use AI to shrink environmental footprint and cost, while recycling byproducts and increasing performance.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
Dec. 7, 2021 ~14 min


Generating a realistic 3D world

A new AI-powered, virtual platform uses real-world physics to simulate a rich and interactive audio-visual environment, enabling human and robotic learning, training, and experimental studies.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing • mit
Dec. 6, 2021 ~10 min

Toward speech recognition for uncommon spoken languages

Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 4, 2021 ~9 min

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