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Impact.AI: K-12 AI Literacy

Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
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Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News:  Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
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An AI opera from 1987 reboots for a new generation

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
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VALIS: 2023 Production

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
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Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
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Commuting Flow Generation

Individual mobility, both within cities and across cities, significantly impacts various societal aspects, such as well-being, the spread o…
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Kate Darling, robot expert: "We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine. It’s going to be all of us"

Dr. Kate Darling, a research scientist with the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, talks to El País about human relationships to tech.
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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A deep dive into deepfakes

On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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The "godfather of AI" says he's worried about "the end of people"

Ziv Epstein, a researcher in the Human Dynamics group, discusses the relationship between humans and AI and where it could be headed.
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AVID Open Access: Day of AI, with Randi Williams

On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
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AI literacy, explained

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Using Generative AI to cultivate positive emotions and mindsets for self-development and learning

Joanne Leong. 2023. Using Generative AI to Cultivate Positive Emotions and Mindsets for Self-Development and Learning. XRDS 29, 3 (Spring 2023), 52–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589659
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Cynthia Breazeal named to 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list

Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, makes the 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50 list in the Innovation category
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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AI is taking music lessons. They’re not going great.

Professor Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to the Washington Post about AI, music, & human creativity.
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Do scientists have superpowers?

Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
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FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean

Katija, K., Orenstein, E., Schlining, B. et al. FathomNet: A global image database for enabling artificial intelligence in the ocean. Sci Rep 12, 15914 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19939-2
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Generative AI for makers: AI has truly arrived — and it’s here to help you make and craft

Personal Robots alum Stefania Druga and editor Keith Hammond explore the ways that crafters and makers can use generative AI techniques.
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Is the panic over AI art overblown? We speak with artists and experts.

Lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Latent Lab: Large Language Models for Knowledge Exploration
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.
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Day of AI curriculum meets the moment

Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
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Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

Kumar, B.*, Lu, C.*, Gupta, G., Palepu, A., Bellamy, D., Raskar, R., & Beam, A. "Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering." Neural Conversational AI Workshop at ICML 2023.
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, C.*, Yu, Y.*, Karimireddy, S. P., Jordan, M. I., & Raskar, R. (2023). Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification. Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
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If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Day of AI 2023: Photo gallery

View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.
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Day of AI 2023: Press Round-Up

This event congregated a community of educators around the world to celebrate and share class content using the Day of AI curriculum.
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Prathima Muniyappa and Alexandra Rieger among 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
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Using reflections to see the world from new points of view

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction
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A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense

Researchers from Fluid Interfaces presented this research at the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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Deep Angel: The AI behind the aesthetics of absence

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit.e…
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AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
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Robot ChatGPT, GPT-4: "It's time to slow down the development of artificial intelligence"

Researcher Pattie Maes believes it's crucial to build machines to support our intelligence rather than replace it.
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being

Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9
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AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

P. Pataranutaporn* J. Leong*, V. Danry*, A. Lawson, P. Maes, M. Sra. 2022. *Co-first authorship ”AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning” to appear in FIE 2022, October 8-11, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity

Leong, Joanne. Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity. 2021. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS Thesis.
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The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids.

Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
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Synthetic Self-Perception

Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
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Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
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Meet the Ganimals

New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini featured on Last Week Tonight

The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
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Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Smith, A., Schroeder, H., Epstein, Z., Cook, M., Colton, S., & Lippman, A. (2023). Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.
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Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Does using text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion in the creative process affect what people make in the physical world?
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Dentsu collaboration with Affective Computing group

Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and d…
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How soon will M3gan become reality? Robot ethicists weigh in

Kate Darling talks about the film M3gan and the future of artificial intelligence systems designed to have human relationships.