Just a few years ago, AI coding assistants were little more than autocomplete curiosities—tools that could finish your variable names or suggest a line of boilerplate. Today, they’ve become an everyday part of millions of developers’ workflows, with entire products and startups built around them. Depending on who you ask, they represent either the dawn…
For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, antibiotics can be a double-edged sword. The broad-spectrum drugs often prescribed for gut flare-ups can kill helpful microbes alongside harmful ones, sometimes worsening symptoms over time. When fighting gut inflammation, you don’t always want to bring a sledgehammer to a knife fight. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial…
The Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship announced that Ana Bakshi has been named its new executive director. Bakshi stepped into the role at the start of the fall semester and will collaborate closely with the managing director, Ethernet Inventors Professor of the Practice Bill Aulet, to elevate the center to higher levels. “Ana is uniquely…
The new TX-Generative AI Next (TX-GAIN) computing system at the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) is the most powerful AI supercomputer at any U.S. university. With its recent ranking from TOP500, which biannually publishes a list of the top supercomputers in various categories, TX-GAIN joins the ranks of other powerful systems at the LLSC, all supporting…
Talk of AI is inescapable. It’s often the main topic of discussion at board and executive meetings, at corporate retreats, and in the media. A record 58% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI in their second-quarter earnings calls, according to Goldman Sachs. But it’s difficult to walk the talk. Just 5% of generative AI pilots…
This article is part of a series on the Sens-AI Framework—practical habits for learning and coding with AI. AI gives novice developers the ability to skip the slow, messy parts of learning. For experienced developers, that can mean getting to a working solution faster. Developers early in their learning path, however, face what I call…
When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure the English in his application was pitch-perfect. So he turned to ChatGPT. He was surprised to see that in addition to smoothing out his language, it changed his identity—swapping out his surname for “Sharma,” which is…
This is the first of a three-part series by Markus Eisele. Stay tuned for the follow-up posts. AI is everywhere right now. Every conference, keynote, and internal meeting has someone showing a prototype powered by a large language model. It looks impressive. You ask a question, and the system answers in natural language. But if…
On Thursday, I published a story about the police-tech giant Flock Safety selling its drones to the private sector to track shoplifters. Keith Kauffman, a former police chief who now leads Flock’s drone efforts, described the ideal scenario: A security team at a Home Depot, say, launches a drone from the roof that follows shoplifting…