Study finds ChatGPT boosts worker productivity for some writing tasks

A new report by MIT researchers highlights the potential of generative AI to help workers with certain writing assignments.

Zach Winn | MIT News Office • mit
July 14, 2023 ~7 min

New tool helps people choose the right method for evaluating AI models

Selecting the right method gives users a more accurate picture of how their model is behaving, so they are better equipped to correctly interpret its predictions.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 31, 2023 ~7 min


Exploring new methods for increasing safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles

A new study finds human supervisors have the potential to reduce barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles.

Madeleine Turner | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems • mit
May 23, 2023 ~8 min

Study: AI models fail to reproduce human judgements about rule violations

Models trained using common data-collection techniques judge rule violations more harshly than humans would, researchers report.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
May 10, 2023 ~8 min

Efficient technique improves machine-learning models’ reliability

The method enables a model to determine its confidence in a prediction, while using no additional data and far fewer computing resources than other methods.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 13, 2023 ~7 min

Meet the 2022-23 Accenture Fellows

This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research,  AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.

School of Engineering • mit
Dec. 9, 2022 ~5 min

Study: Automation drives income inequality

New data suggest most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980 comes from automation displacing less-educated workers.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Nov. 21, 2022 ~8 min

Ensuring AI works with the right dose of curiosity

Researchers make headway in solving a longstanding problem of balancing curious “exploration” versus “exploitation” of known pathways in reinforcement learning.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Nov. 10, 2022 ~9 min


Bringing lessons from cybersecurity to the fight against disinformation

Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
Aug. 21, 2022 ~9 min

Explained: How to tell if artificial intelligence is working the way we want it to

“Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 22, 2022 ~11 min

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