Andrew W. Lo, MIT Professor in the Sloan School of Management, CSAIL PI, and Faculty Co-Director of FinTechAI@CSAIL, says, "The question is: `Do large language models have our back?’ The answer is no, not yet.” 

For MIT Professor Armando Solar-Lezama, one of the most common misunderstandings about AI is the notion that it can be dropped into existing human roles like a plug-and-play replacement.

David Clark, Senior Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, helped design the system that connects nearly every computer on earth. As Chief Protocol Architect of the Internet from 1981 to 1989, he was there for the beginnings of the Internet. Calling the wave of AI technology an “echo” of what happened in the 80’s, Dr. Clark is cautioning, “ maybe we need to slow things down and think a bit.”

What happens when the team behind PlayStation meets the researchers pushing the boundaries of AI? You get The Nexus of Games and AI, a 12-part MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) course, now available to stream.

Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a patient’s lungs, legs, feet, and other parts of the body. The condition is chronic and incurable, often leading to arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest. For many centuries, bloodletting and leeches were the treatment of choice, famously practiced by barber surgeons in Europe, during a time when physicians rarely operated on patients.