How special relativity can help AI predict the future
Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but some guesses are a lot better than others. A kicked football...
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How a $1 million plot to hack Tesla failed
Hacking isn’t all 1s and 0s—more often than you’d think, it’s about people. A Tesla employee was offered a $1...
Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird
Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. It was a viral...
Corban Swain’s poetry
At the MIT community vigil held in June 2020 in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Corban Swain, a PhD...
Facebook is training robot assistants to hear as well as see
In June 2019, Facebook’s AI lab, FAIR, released AI Habitat, a new simulation platform for training AI agents. It allowed...
GPT-3, Bloviator: OpenAI’s language generator has no idea what it’s talking about
Since OpenAI first described its new AI language-generating system called GPT-3 in May, hundreds of media outlets (including MIT Technology...
E-learning? There’s a database for that. Real-time data? That, too
Companies of all sizes and maturity levels, from startups to multinational corporations, have at least this in common: they know...
Tour the Minecraft Institvte of Technology
Check out the virtual MIT campus on this guided tour by Amanda Shayna Ahteck ’23. Courtesy of Amanda Shayna Ahteck...
There is a crisis of face recognition and policing in the US
When news broke that a mistaken match from a face recognition system had led Detroit police to arrest Robert Williams...
Unmade in America
In early March, as the coronavirus pandemic forced America to contemplate a nationwide shutdown, Dan St. Louis started to get...
England has started testing a contact tracing app—again
The news: England’s revamped covid-19 contact tracing app has finally been launched for testing by the public, after its previous...
A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it.
At the start of the week, Liam Porr had only heard of GPT-3. By the end, the college student had...
Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy
The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry. About half a dozen companies in the US...
Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was
Mars today is a cold, dry wasteland—but things were likely much different billions of years ago. Since we started launching...
The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash—and AI tools are trying to sniff it out
When economies across the world shut down earlier this year, it wasn’t only business owners and consumers who had to...
How falling solar costs have renewed clean hydrogen hopes
The world is increasingly banking on green hydrogen fuel to fill some of the critical missing pieces in the clean-energy...
“Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking
Jenny’s story is not linear, the way that we like stories to be. She was born in Baltimore in 1975...
The problems AI has today go back centuries
In March of 2015, protests broke out at the University of Cape Town in South Africa over the campus statue...
