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Large Language Models Help Decipher Clinical Notes
Electronic health records (EHRs) need a new public relations manager. Ten years ago, the U.S. government passed a law that strongly encouraged the adoption of electronic health records with the intent of improving and streamlining care. The enormous amount of information in these now-digital records could be used to answer very specific questions beyond the scope of clinical …
Empowering Social Media Users To Assess Content Helps Fight Misinformation
When fighting the spread of misinformation, social media platforms typically place most users in the passenger seat. Platforms often use machine-learning algorithms or human fact-checkers to flag false or misinforming content for users. “Just because this is the status quo doesn’t mean it is the correct way or the only way to do it,” says …
Solving Brain Dynamics Gives Rise To Flexible Machine Learning Models
Last year, MIT researchers announced that they had built “liquid” neural networks, inspired by the brains of small species: a class of flexible, robust machine learning models that learn on the job and can adapt to changing conditions, for real-world safety-critical tasks, like driving and flying. The flexibility of these “liquid” neural nets meant boosting the …
Sometimes It’s Bad For AI To Be Too Curious
It’s a dilemma as old as time. Friday night has rolled around, and you’re trying to pick a restaurant for dinner. (Assuming there’s still reservations since you waited until the last minute to book). Anyways, should you go to your most beloved watering hole, or try a new establishment, in the hopes of discovering something …
A Magical Garden In The Gates Tower
When you enter the Stata Center’s Gates Tower, you are bound to encounter something eye-catching. Visitors often notice the cow sculpture atop the café, informative historic displays on the walls, or even a bright screen that utilizes augmented reality (AR) to showcase visual effects like fluid flow and particle systems. Across from the first-floor elevators …
In Machine Learning, Synthetic Data Can Offer Real Performance Improvements
Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction site or enabling a smart home robot to interpret a user’s gestures. To do this, researchers train machine-learning models using vast datasets of video clips that show humans performing actions. However, not only is …
Using Sound To Model The World
Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them, what the walls are made …
3 Questions: How AI Image Generators Work
AI image generators, which create fantastical sights at the intersection of dreams and reality, bubble up on every corner of the web. Their entertainment value is demonstrated by an ever-expanding treasure trove of whimsical and random images serving as indirect portals to the brains of human designers. A simple text prompt yields a nearly instantaneous …
Reprogrammable Materials Selectively Self-Assemble
While automated manufacturing is ubiquitous today, it was once a nascent field birthed by inventors such as Oliver Evans, who is credited with creating the first fully automated industrial process, in flour mill he built and gradually automated in the late 1700s. The processes for creating automated structures or machines are still very top-down, requiring …
MIT System “Sees” The Inner Structure Of The Body During Physical Rehab
Around three quarters of years lived with disability are conditions that could benefit from physical rehabilitation – but there aren’t enough physical therapists (PT) to go around. The growing need is racing alongside population growth, and aging as well as higher rates of severe ailments, even within the same age group, are contributing to the problem. An …