9 Best Articles in 2022
WIRED
Barack Obama Talks AI, Robo Cars, and the Future of the World
WIRED
~20 min read · From 2016 · Scott Dadich’s article provides a rare opportunity to learn from the perspectives of two major proponents of artificial intelligence (AI): former US president Barack Obama and accomplished MIT professor and director of the MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito. Written in transcript form, the article captures an honest, practical conversation among the author, Obama and Ito as they examine sociopolitical issues associated with AI and their proposed solutions. getAbstract recommends this analysis to anyone concerned about the intersection of AI with the economy, politics and society.
Summary · Shared by 385, including Marco Unternaehrer, M.G. Siegler, Thomas Power, Bjoern Negelmann, #bottish, Dominik Grolimund, Chris Messina, Florian Hanke 🍎, mar, Merkstatt, Data Science Renee, Simon Wüthrich, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Matthew Turland, Nils Hitze, Eckart Burgwedel, getAbstract, Scott Santens, Stephanie A Kowalski, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停
MIT Media Lab
Project Overview ‹ λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus
MIT Media Lab
7 min read · Apr 4th · An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus
Reader View · Shared by 147, including Matthew Turland, Massimiliano Aroffo, Tim Holman, Nils Hitze, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, zach lieberman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5 min read · 2020-12-22 · Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.
Reader View · Shared by 46, including Dirk von Gehlen, Esther Schindler, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Bilal Zuberi, Kate Darling, Daniel Kraft, MD, Joshua Benton, zach lieberman, Ben Fry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Using machine learning to predict high-impact research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 min read · 2021-05-18 · DELPHI, an artificial intelligence framework built by MIT Media Lab researchers, can give an “early-alert” signal for future high-impact technologies by learning from patterns gleaned from previous…
Reader View · Shared by 157, including Bob E. Hayes, Carla Gentry, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, John Nosta, Nature Biotechnology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
3 min read · 2021-12-16 · MIT Media Lab researchers offer positive use cases of AI-generated synthetic characters for education and well-being. A new paper provides an open-source, easy-to-use pipeline that combines AI…
Reader View · Shared by 136, including Ronald van Loon, Harold Sinnott 📲 #DigitalTransformation, Marcus Borba, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, Thomas Pleil, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, AI, Andreas Staub, Iain Brown, PhD
Fast Company
What magic can teach us about the future of technology, according to an MIT magician
Fast Company
2 min read · 2020-08-25 · At the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology, like drones…
Reader View · Shared by 76, including Nrupal Akolkar, Esther Schindler
ethanzuckerman.com
To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
ethanzuckerman.com
5 min read · 2020-08-15 · To the occupant(s) of E15-351 Re: About the window. Hi. My name is Ethan Zuckerman. From 2011-2020, I enjoyed working in this office. I led a research group at the Media Lab called the Center for…
Reader View · Shared by 85, including Katja Evertz, Kiki, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Erico Guizzo, Mathew Ingram, Felix Salmon, Tillmann Allmer, Craig Mod
medium.com
Get Tech the Hell Away From the Trolley Problem
medium.com
~18 min read · 2020-10-06 · This post will largely be about the MIT Media Lab’s “Moral Machine” work, after a brief detour. If you don’t recall, the Moral Machine was…
Reader View · Shared by 68
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unDraw
undraw.co
1 min read · From 2017 · MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.
Shared by 861, including L. Taylor Banks, Zain Fathoni, Gisele Navarro, Bram Kanstein, Philip Junker, Mara Averick, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Nils Hitze, Josep M. Ganyet, Glenn Oberholzer, Aral Balkan, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Chris Messina, Shawn Venasse, Ines Bieler, Andreas Klinger 🏝, Steve Schoger, Mike Taylor, Casey Smith
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Farnam Street
12 Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota
Farnam Street
10 min read · Jun 25th · The mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota spent much of his career at MIT, where students adored him for his engaging, passionate lectures. In 1996, Rota gave a talk entitled “Ten Lessons I…
Reader View · Shared by 794, including Scott Monty
thebrighterside.news
MIT developed heat engine has no moving parts
thebrighterside.news
5 min read · Aug 2nd · Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine with no moving parts.
Reader View · Shared by 243, including Matteo Furia
thebrighterside.news
MIT sleep study results in eye-opening findings
thebrighterside.news
7 min read · Jul 26th · MIT researchers suggest that more sleep, by itself, isn’t necessarily sufficient to bring about increased energy and well-being.
Reader View · Shared by 237
Freethink
MIT proposes Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth
Freethink
3 min read · Jun 29th · A raft of “space bubbles” could be used to reverse global warming, according to an MIT group's solar geoengineering proposal.
Reader View · Shared by 193, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
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How We Treat Animals Will Inform Our Future With Robots
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~15 min read · 2021-04-01 · Evan Selinger in conversation with Kate Darling from MIT Media Lab
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Media for Thinking the Unthinkable
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From 2013 · Presented at the MIT Media Lab on April 4, 2013. Talk outline: http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/ Personal preface: http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/note.html For…
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10 Tips for Creating a Fertile Environment for Kids’ Creativity and Growth
ww2.kqed.org
8 min read · From 2017 · Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab applies the Creative Learning Spiral to show how parents and educators can better support kids' creativity.
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MIT Media Lab
Our response to "A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built to Outperform Bitcoin" — MIT Media…
MIT Media Lab
4 min read · From 2017 · On Friday, MIT Technology Review published an article on the cryptocurrency IOTA. However, we at the Media Lab have issues with the story
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MIT Media Lab
Rewarding Disobedience — MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab
2 min read · From 2017 · On July 21, 2016 we announced the creation of a $250K cash prize award for disobedience. This idea came after a realization that there’s a widespread frustra...
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MIT Media Lab
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MIT Media Lab
1 min read · From 2016 · The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.
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MIT Technology Review
Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · From 2020 · In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral Machine. The idea was to create a game-like platform that would crowdsource people’s decisions on how self-driving cars…
Reader View · Shared by 29, including James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Massimo Pigliucci, Dr. Nettra Pan 🦇🔊 #w3ready, Anita Leirfall, Howard Getson
MIT Technology Review
MIT has just announced a $1 billion plan to create a new college for AI
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · From 2018 · One of the birthplaces of artificial intelligence, MIT, has announced a bold plan to reshape its academic program around the technology.
Reader View · Shared by 95, including Merkstatt, Raphael Bratschi, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Gerd Leonhard, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Chris Messina, Clemens M. Schuster, Oliver Ewinger
VICE
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We're on Schedule
VICE
5 min read · 2021-07-14 · A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we're unfortunately right on schedule.
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