5/2/2025
5/2/2025 – Recent AI News
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Novel AI model inspired by neural dynamics from the brain
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 15:30:00 -0400 | (Link)
New type of “state-space model” leverages principles of harmonic oscillators. -
Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
A new method helps convey uncertainty more precisely, which could give researchers and medical clinicians better information to make decisions. -
The MIT-Portugal Program enters Phase 4
Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:20:00 -0400 | (Link)
New phase will support continued exploration of ideas and solutions in fields ranging from AI to nanotech to climate — with emphasis on educational exchanges and entrepreneurship. -
Merging design and computer science in creative ways
Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:00 -0400 | (Link)
MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality. -
Novel method detects microbial contamination in cell cultures
Published: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
Ultraviolet light “fingerprints” on cell cultures and machine learning can provide a definitive yes/no contamination assessment within 30 minutes. -
Artificial sense of touch, improved
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 12:24:59 EDT | (Link)
While exploring a digitally represented object through artificially created sense of touch, brain-computer interface users described the warm fur of a purring cat, the smooth rigid surface of a door key and cool roundness of an apple. -
Cutting the complexity from digital carpentry
Published: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:33:42 EDT | (Link)
Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in concept, the ways to instruct these machines is in reality often complex. A team of researchers has devised a system to demonstrate how to mitigate some of this complexity. -
Awkward. Humans are still better than AI at reading the room
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:56:49 EDT | (Link)
Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired by the infrastructure of the part of the brain that processes static images, which is different from the area of the brain that processes dynamic social scenes. -
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
Published: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:16:58 EDT | (Link)
Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains error free.