4/5/2025
4/4/2025 – Recent AI News
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Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy
Published: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:35:00 -0400 | (Link)
At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels. -
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
Published: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project. -
Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges
Published: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems. -
Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Published: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:45:00 -0400 | (Link)
Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential. -
For this computer scientist, MIT Open Learning was the start of a life-changing journey
Published: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia. -
A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin
Published: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:17:27 EDT | (Link)
Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and permeable, but also mimics the interactions of real skin and the brain. -
Philosophy: Cultural differences in exploitation of artificial agents
Published: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:33:12 EDT | (Link)
A new study shows that people in Japan treat robots and AI agents more respectfully than people in Western societies. -
These electronics-free robots can walk right off the 3D-printer
Published: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:51:31 EDT | (Link)
This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one material. -
Squirrel-inspired leaping robot can stick a landing on a branch
Published: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:28:50 EDT | (Link)
A leaping robot could have application in search and rescue, construction, even forest monitoring. But how do you design a robot to stick a landing on a branch or pipe? Biologists worked with robot designers to discover how squirrels do it, and used what they learned to design a one-legged robot with the balancing ability and leg biomechanics to correct for over- and undershooting and land successfully on a narrow perch.