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Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media
... to grapple with, yet those who study this issue still don’t have a deep understanding of why and how false news spreads. To shed some ... their point of view: The key assumption in the model is that people bother to share something with their followers if they think it is ...
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A game changer takes on cricket’s statistical problem
... Jehangir Amjad has done something few people can: He found a way to combine his favorite sport with his work. A ... the cricket problem for years, although Amjad didn’t land on his research project immediately. In fact, the theory that he is now ...
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Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions
... current rate of hardware efficiency improvements, it doesn’t seem like it is going to be enough to constrain the emissions from computing ... of time driven in autonomous vehicles might increase because people can multitask while driving and the young and the elderly could drive ...
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Explained: Generative AI - How do powerful generative AI systems like ChatGPT work, and what makes them different from other types of artificial intelligence?
What do people mean when they say “generative AI,” and why do these systems seem to ... that seems to have been written by a human. But what do people really mean when they say “generative AI?” Before the generative ... of ChatGPT and its counterparts, the technology itself isn’t brand new. These powerful machine-learning models draw on research and ...
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From undisciplined to interdisciplinary
... those preparatory schools,” Rigollet says. “They didn’t want people who were burned out at the end of high school and couldn’t push it, ...
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Optimization and Adaptation in Machine Learning and Life
... was something I was looking for, and at MIT, lots of people are doing it.” Alireza’s main interest is optimization. “What ... you’re going from your home to your workplace, you don’t know whether the light will be green or red, you don’t know whether ...
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm
... rating of a product, use not only the ratings from people with similar tastes but also the ratings from people who are similar to ... and Jennifer Chayes — devising such an algorithm wasn’t the hard part. The challenge was proving that it would work well, and ...
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Startup Bringing Driverless Taxi Service to Singapore
... they want to have more buses, but they cannot find people to drive buses at night,” he says. “Robotics will not put these ... could promote wider use of electric cars, as consumers won’t need to purchase the expensive cars or worry about finding charging stations. ...
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Learning from Social Data Processing
... right model coming from social sciences trying to capture people's behavior in a meaningful manner,” he says. “We think about ... energy grids,” says Shah. “But we as engineers can’t just design these systems without understanding that the end users are people ...
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Tackling society’s big problems with systems theory
... constant: understanding the way distributed systems of people and/or devices interact and work together, and how to optimize those ... them that the traditional departmental structure doesn’t address,” he says. At IDSS, Jadbabaie says, he and his colleagues are set ...