Category: School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences
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President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discuss the future of AI
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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 societyHow 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…
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MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning
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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 ChancellorHow 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…
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Exploring the history of data-driven arguments in public life
Political debates today may not always be exceptionally rational, but they are often infused with numbers. If people are discussing the economy or health care or climate change, sooner or later they will invoke statistics. It was not always thus. Our habit of using numbers to make political arguments has a history, and William Deringer…
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A musical life: Carlos Prieto ’59 in conversation and concert
World-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto ’59 returned to campus for an event to perform and to discuss his new memoir, “Mi Vida Musical.” At the April 9 event in the Samberg Conference Center, Prieto spoke about his formative years at MIT and his subsequent career as a professional cellist. The talk was followed by performances of J.S.…
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024
Eight MIT faculty members are among the 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to academy…
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Bringing an investigator’s eye to complex social challenges
Anna Russo likes puzzles. They require patience, organization, and a view of the big picture. She brings an investigator’s eye to big institutional and societal challenges whose solutions can have wide-ranging, long-term impacts. Russo’s path to MIT began with questions. She didn’t have the whole picture yet. “I had no idea what I wanted to…