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MIT professors Elchanan Mossel and Rosalind Picard are named 2021 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery.

MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and MGH clinical psychologist Paola Pedrelli are using machine learning and wearable sensors to detect major depressive disorder symptoms in patients.

The recent emergence of deepfake videos raises theoretical and practical questions. Are humans or the leading machine learning model more capable of detecting algorithmic visual manipulations of videos? How should content moderation systems be designed to detect and flag video-based misinformation? We present data showing that ordinary humans perform in the range of the leading machine learning model on a large set of minimal context videos. While we find that a system integrating human and model predictions is more accurate than either humans or the model alone, we show inaccurate model predi...

A new study has evaluated the reception of touching behaviors from a social robot for the first time.

Assoc. Prof. Katie Seaborn discusses how social biases and imperfect understanding of ourselves limit AI design, and her hopes for the future with AI