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3 Questions: Kalyan Veeramachaneni On Hurdles Preventing Fully Automated Machine Learning

Researchers hope more user-friendly machine-learning systems will enable nonexperts to analyze big data — but can such systems ever be completely autonomous?

These Neural Networks Know What They’re Doing

A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training.

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Accelerating The Discovery Of New Materials For 3D Printing

A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods.

One Giant Leap For The Mini Cheetah

A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.

Making Machine Learning More Useful To High-Stakes Decision Makers

A visual analytics tool helps child welfare specialists understand machine learning predictions that can assist them in screening cases.

Avoiding Shortcut Solutions In Artificial Intelligence

A new method forces a machine learning model to focus on more data when learning a task, which leads to more reliable predictions.

Toward Speech Recognition For Uncommon Spoken Languages

Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.

Giving Robots Social Skills

A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions.

Artificial Intelligence That Understands Object Relationships

A new machine-learning model could enable robots to understand interactions in the world in the way humans do.

Taking Some Of The Guesswork Out Of Drug Discovery

A deep learning model rapidly predicts the 3D shapes of drug-like molecules, which could accelerate the process of discovering new medicines.

Technique Enables Real-Time Rendering Of Scenes In 3D

The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods.

Machines That See The World More Like Humans Do

A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.

Machine-Learning System Flags Remedies That Might Do More Harm Than Good

The system could help physicians select the least risky treatments in urgent situations, such as treating sepsis.

Systems Scientists Find Clues To Why False News Snowballs On Social Media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

Giving Bug-Like Bots A Boost

A new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.

A Step Toward Safe And Reliable Autopilots For Flying

A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability.

MIT Researchers Devise A Way To Evaluate Cybersecurity Methods

The system analyzes the likelihood that an attacker could thwart a certain security scheme to steal secret information.

Making Data Visualizations More Accessible

Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.

Researchers Teach An AI To Write Better Chart Captions

A new dataset can help scientists develop automatic systems that generate richer, more descriptive captions for online charts.

Researchers Grow Precise Arrays Of Nanoleds

A new technique produces perovskite nanocrystals right where they’re needed, so the exceedingly delicate materials can be integrated into nanoscale devices.