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‘A beautiful puzzle’: Looking inside AI models and trying to understand what we see
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (436+ words) Thomas Fel, a Kempner Institute research fellow and rising star in AI vision models, discusses his work at the institute, and what's next for him " and for AI. Thomas Fel, a research fellow at the Kempner Institute, wants to help…...
Can a chatbot be a co-author? — Harvard Gazette
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1142+ words) Alfredo Guevara (from left), Andrew Strominger, and David Skinner. Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answers that didn't stand up to scrutiny. So he was skeptical when a talented…...
New AI tool predicts brain age, dementia risk, cancer survival — Harvard Gazette
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (227+ words) A new AI foundation model has been developed that can accurately extract multiple disease risk signals from routine brain MRIs, including: estimating a person's "brain age; predicting dementia risk; detecting brain tumor mutations; and predicting survival from brain cancer, according…...
How to stop slumping American math scores — Harvard Gazette
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1777+ words) Scholars are frustrated. After decades of effort to bring more challenge and joy to math class, American students have made little net progress. In 2022, the nation's students ranked 34th in the preeminent international test of mathematics. While the U.S. historically has never…...
New kind of AI model gives robots a visual imagination
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (246+ words) Video stills show a robot gripper generalizing its knowledge to perform specific actions in response to prompts, such as picking up a screwdriver and placing it on a case, or picking up a bottle of hand sanitizer. In a major…...
‘It just feels good when you solve the hard problems’
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1063+ words) Students compare answers after taking the Putnam exam. The Kirkland House resident was among more than 50 Harvard students who participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the premier math contest for college undergraduates in North America. Now in its…...
What will AI mean for humanity? — Harvard Gazette
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (1121+ words) E. Glen Weyl (second from right), shares his more optimistic view of technology during the panel discussion "How Is Digital Technology Shaping the Human Soul?" Panelists included Moira Weigel (from right), Nataliya Kos'myna, Brandon Vaidyanathan, and moderator Ian Marcus Corbin. What…...
How do math, reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers. — Harvard Gazette
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (531+ words) Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years "This was the most important year because we were going to see who of these kids developed typical reading and math skills versus atypical reading and math…...
AI leaps from math dunce to whiz — Harvard Gazette
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1103+ words) When Michael Brenner taught the graduate-level class "Applied Mathematics 201" in fall 2023, the course's nonlinear partial differential equations were too tough for artificial intelligence. AI managed to solve just 30 to 50 percent of the problems in the first three weeks of the…...
Physicians embrace AI note-taking technology — Harvard Gazette
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (396+ words) AI-driven scribes that record patient visits and draft clinical notes for physician review led to significant reductions in physician burnout and improvements in well-being, according to a Mass General Brigham study of two large healthcare systems. The findings, published in'JAMA…...