According to a recent press release, “A team of MIT researchers is making it easier for novices to get their feet wet with artificial intelligence, while also helping experts advance the field. In a paper presented at the Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this week, the researchers describe a novel probabilistic-programming system named “Gen.” […]
CSAIL Researchers Make AI Binge-Watch TV to Learn Human Behavior
by Angela Guess Matt Burgess reports in Wired, “One difficulty faced by artificial intelligence is predicting what humans are going to do next. To help solve that problem, researched have trained an algorithm by making it binge-watch TV. Computer vision experts from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) made an algorithm watch 600 […]
MIT is Teaching AI to Fight Cyberattacks
by Angela Guess Brian Barrett recently wrote in Wired, “Finding evidence that someone compromised your cyber defenses is a grind. Sifting through all of the data to find abnormalities takes a lot of time and effort, and analysts can only work so many hours a day. But an AI never gets tired, and can work […]
A New, Energy-Efficient Chip Design for Neural Networks
by Angela Guess Larry Hardesty reports in MIT News, “In recent years, some of the most exciting advances in artificial intelligence have come courtesy of convolutional neural networks, large virtual networks of simple information-processing units, which are loosely modeled on the anatomy of the human brain. Neural networks are typically implemented using graphics processing units […]
The Human Element in Big Data Analytics May Become a Thing of the Past
by Angela Guess Rick Delgado recently wrote in Dataconomy, “Most experts agree that while big data uses some of the most advanced technology available to businesses, doing so without someone to guide it — the human element, so to speak — would be a mistake. Human thought processes have become a vital ingredient to achieving […]