A new essay from MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Sasha Rakhlin synthesizes recent discussions and readings about how AI is changing academia particularly mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and engineering. He shares key questions that departments and universities need to think about, and how they can best work with AI going forward. (Csü. | mit)
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Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
MIT Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou applies machine learning to make large cloud computing systems more efficient, secure, and reliable, which improves performance of web applications while reducing the negative environmental impacts of data centers. (Csü. | mit)
MIT Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou applies machine learning to make large cloud computing systems more efficient, secure, and reliable, which improves performance of web applications while reducing the negative environmental impacts of data centers. (Csü. | mit) Mere Customers or Loyal Fans?
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Students in in MITs Concourse first-year learning community study the humanities as well as taking their core math, science, and engineering courses together. In this tight-knit community, they learn to think deeply about the human condition, debate challenging topics, and develop judgment about non... (Sze. | mit)
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in
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Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems
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Amazon just quietly dropped 3 new tablets meet the Alexa tablets
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