Created by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, #OctoStudio is a free mobile app that lets kids create and share creative coding projects on mobile phones and tablets. Explore the YouTube channel to see how students and educators are using it in and out of the classroom! https://lnkd.in/eHggmSM5
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The Media Lab is an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic rigor, comprising dozens of research groups, initiatives, and centers working collaboratively on hundreds of projects. We focus not only on creating and commercializing transformational future technologies but also on their potential to impact society for good. Accessibility: https://accessibility.mit.edu/
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Congratulations to Hao-Tung Yang, a graduate student in the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group led by Professor Deblina Sarkar, on receiving the 2024 T.S. Lin Fellowship Award sponsored by the MIT Office of Graduate Education (OGE).
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As part of the Media Lab’s collaboration with Castrol, researchers from the Space Exploration Initiative recently tested AstroAnt in the rugged environment of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. One of these miniaturized robots will soon be deployed on the #IM2 lunar mission—but first, these terrestrial tests help to ensure that its teeny-tiny wheels keep turning when it reaches the moon. https://lnkd.in/gyZrMCyW
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In The Atlantic, Matteo Wong looks at recent research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group finding that AI chatbots may be able to induce false memories, by imparting and reinforcing incorrect information.
Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality
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Media Lab researchers Robert Mahari and Shayne Longpre, with Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and collaborators from both industry and academia, have developed a user-friendly, online tool called the Data Provenance Explorer. It is intended to help AI practitioners find data that suits the purpose of their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias. “These types of tools can help regulators and practitioners make informed decisions about AI deployment, and further the responsible development of AI,” Professor Pentland says. Mahari notes, “One of the best ways to understand the capabilities and limitations of an AI model is understanding what data it was trained on. When you have misattribution and confusion about where data came from, you have a serious transparency issue.”
Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models
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At #TEDxBoston, Media Lab PhD student Valdemar Danry discussed research he’s conducting with colleagues in the Fluid Interfaces group on developing AI systems that prompt users to think more critically about the information the system provides, rather than simply answering questions. “AI systems that give us the answers do not teach people how to think,” he says, “but only how to follow. And this can make us incredibly vulnerable to AI systems that lie.” He adds, “We'll have to ask ourselves the question: Is critical thinking a skill we want to delegate to machines?”
AI isn't making you think but here is how it could | Valdemar Danry | TEDxBoston
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Media Lab Professor Deblina Sarkar and her parents talk to the daily Indian newspaper The Telegraph about her academic career, which has taken her from a school in rural Bengal, to the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, to a PhD at UC Santa Barbara, to founding the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group at the Media Lab. “I wanted to create knowledge," she says, "add to the production of knowledge rather than just implement what already exists.” https://lnkd.in/gFNbicF3
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"Enhancing infrastructure resilience," a research project proposal by Media Lab Director Dava Newman and research engineer Minoo Rathnasabapathy, has been selected for funding by the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) Future Energy Systems Center. The 10 projects selected for this program are aimed at accelerating decarbonization through system analysis and insights.
Project proposal by Dava Newman and Minoo Rathnasabapathy selected for funding by MITEI's Future Energy Systems Center
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Recent sleep research suggests that daytime naps can increase productivity, improve focus, and encourage creativity. For TIME, science writer Matt Fuchs asks experts including Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz for their tips on taking the perfect nap.
How to Take the Perfect Nap
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