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CSAIL article

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has announced a new direction for its long-standing FinTech research initiative, now FinTechAI@CSAIL, to highlight the central role artificial intelligence is playing in shaping the future of finance.

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The “PhysicsGen” system can multiply a few dozen VR demonstrations into nearly 3,000 simulations per machine for mechanical companions like robotic arms and hands (Credit: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL using photos from the researchers).
CSAIL article

When ChatGPT or Gemini gives what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular artificial intelligence (AI) models, these chatbots rely on backbone systems called foundation models that train on billions or even trillions of data points.

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The first successful organ transplant was less than 75 years ago. Despite significant progress since then, many patients still fall through the gaps of what remains a complicated procedure (Credits: Alex Ouyang/MIT Jameel Clinic).
CSAIL article

In 1954, the world’s first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and scientists had correctly theorized that the recipient’s antibodies were unlikely to reject an organ from an identical twin. One Nobel Prize and a few decades later, advancements in immune-suppressing drugs increased the viability of and demand for organ transplants. Today, over 1 million organ transplants have been performed in the United States, more than any other country in the world.