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President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discuss the future of AI

May 6, 2024

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in Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Careers, Community, Ethics, History of science, Human-computer interaction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Invention, Labor and jobs, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT Sloan School of Management, President Sally Kornbluth, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, School of Science, Special events and guest speakers, Sustainability, Technology and society

How is the field of artificial intelligence evolving and what does it mean for the future of work, education, and humanity? MIT President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman covered all that and more in a wide-ranging discussion on MIT’s campus May 2. The success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models has helped spur…
An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

Apr 29, 2024

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in Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Climate change, Data, Disaster response, Lincoln Laboratory, Machine Learning, Natural disasters, Radar, Research, Technology and society, Weather, Weather modeling

The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado’s twisting funnel of dust and debris seems an unmistakable sight. But that sight can be obscured to radar, the tool of meteorologists. It’s hard to know exactly when a tornado has formed, or even why. A new dataset could hold answers.…
MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning

Apr 29, 2024

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in Artificial Intelligence, Classes and programs, Education, teaching, academics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Faculty, Human-computer interaction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Internet, K-12 education, Labor and jobs, Languages, Learning, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT Sloan School of Management, MITx, Office of Open Learning, Online learning, School of Engineering, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, School of Science, Special events and guest speakers, Staff, Students, Technology and society, Vice Chancellor

How can MIT’s community leverage generative AI to support learning and work on campus and beyond? At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, faculty and instructors, students, staff, and alumni exchanged perspectives about the digital tools and innovations they’re experimenting with in the classroom. Panelists agreed that generative AI should be used to scaffold — not…