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Graduate student Cathy Fang speaks with CBS News reporter Lindsey Reiser about her research studying the effects of AI chatbots on people’s emotional well-being. Fang explains that she and her colleagues found that how the chatbot interacts with the user is important, “but also how the user interacts with the chatbot is equally important.

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Have you ever wanted to travel through time to see what your future self might be like? Now, thanks to the power of generative AI, you can. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere created a system that enables users to have an online, text-based conversation with an AI-generated simulation of their potential future self.

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AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to go. Whitehead Institute and CSAIL researchers created a machine-learning model to predict and generate protein localization, with implications for understanding and remedying disease. February 13, 2025. Read full story →

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A hybrid AI approach known as hybrid autoregressive transformer can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources. The new tool uses an autoregressive model to quickly capture the big picture and then a small diffusion model to refine the details of the image.

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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. March 21, 2025. Read full story →

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Before the generative AI boom of the past few years, when people talked about AI, typically they were talking about machine-learning models that can learn to make a prediction based on data. For instance, such models are trained, using millions of examples, to predict whether a certain X-ray shows signs of a tumor or if a particular borrower is …

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AI to the rescue Even with a sophisticated plan, both human and robotic agents will encounter confusion and even make mistakes if their roles are unclear. This plight looms especially large in search-and-rescue missions, where the objective may be to locate someone in danger despite limited time and a vast area to scan.

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Attribute lenses can be generated automatically, providing a streamlined method to help researchers understand more about a model. This visualization tool could enable scientists and engineers to correct stored knowledge and help prevent an AI chatbot from giving false information.

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Researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI models with the programming language SQL to provide faster and more accurate results than other methods.

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