Sara Beery, Marzyeh Ghassemi, and Yoon Kim, EECS faculty and CSAIL principal investigators, were awarded AI2050 Early Career Fellowships earlier this week for their pursuit of “bold and ambitious work on hard problems in AI.” They received this honor from Schmidt Futures, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation.
Chatbots can wear a lot of proverbial hats: dictionary, therapist, poet, all-knowing friend. The artificial intelligence models that power these systems appear exceptionally skilled and efficient at providing answers, clarifying concepts, and distilling information. But to establish trustworthiness of content generated by such models, how can we really know if a particular statement is factual, a hallucination, or just a plain misunderstanding?
Daniela Rus, Director of CSAIL and MIT EECS Professor, recently received the 2025 Edison Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award recognizes her leadership and pioneering work in modern robotics.