Author: aliyamagee3

  • The Cost of Thinking

    Michalowski, Jennifer. “The Cost of Thinking.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 Nov. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/cost-of-thinking-1119. In this latest article, researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute led by Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko found a remarkable parallel between how humans and modern reasoning large language models take on difficult problems. They tested both people and AI models…

  • AI Maps How a New Antibiotic Targets Gut Bacteria

    Donti, Priya. “AI Maps How a New Antibiotic Targets Gut Bacteria.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 Oct. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/ai-maps-how-new-antibiotic-targets-gut-bacteria-1003. In this article, researchers from MIT’s CSAIL and McMaster University used a generative AI model to analyze over 10,000 molecules and discovered enterololin, a compound that more precisely targets harmful gut bacteria linked to…

  • Fighting for the Health of the Planet with AI

    Donti, Priya. “Fighting for the Health of the Planet with AI.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 7 Oct. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/fighting-health-planet-ai-priya-donti-1007/. In this article, MIT highlights the work of Assistant Professor Priya Donti, whose research bridges machine learning and renewable energy to make power grids more efficient and climate-resilient. Growing up with a deep awareness…

  • Helping K-12 Schools Navigate the Complex World of AI

    Benjamin Daniel. “Helping K-12 Schools Navigate the Complex World of AI.” MIT News, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 Nov. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/helping-k-12-schools-navigate-complex-world-of-ai-1103. In this piece, MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab, led by Associate Professor Justin Reich, presents a new guidebook, A Guide to AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed, aimed at helping K–12 educators and school…

  • How the Royal Navy Is Using AI to Cut Its Recruitment Workload.

    Ryan Daws. “How the Royal Navy Is Using AI to Cut Its Recruitment Workload.” AI News, TechForge Media, 20 Nov. 2025, www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/how-the-royal-navy-is-using-ai-to-cut-recruitment-workload/. In this article, Daws describes how the Royal Navy is deploying a real-time AI avatar named Atlas to handle the first line of its recruitment process. Atlas, built on a large language model,…

  • ChatGPT Group Chats May Help Teams Bring AI Into Daily Planning

    Zulhusni, Muhammad. “ChatGPT Group Chats May Help Teams Bring AI Into Daily Planning.” AI News, TechForge Media, 21 Nov. 2025, www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/chatgpt-group-chats-may-help-teams-bring-ai-into-daily-planning/. In this article, Zulhusni explains how ChatGPT’s new group-chat feature lets up to twenty people collaborate in a shared conversation, shifting AI from a one-on-one tool to something teams can use together. While the…

  • A New Way to Edit or Generate Images

    Nadis, Steve. “A New Way to Edit or Generate Images.” MIT News, 21 July 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/new-way-edit-or-generate-images-0721. This novel method developed by MIT researchers for editing and generating images without relying on traditional generative neural networks. The key idea involves using 1D tokenizers also known as encoders and detokenizers which are decoders. This method compresses an…

  • MIT Researchers Develop AI Tool to Improve Flu Vaccine Strain Selection

    Gordon, Rachel. “MIT Researchers Develop AI Tool to Improve Flu Vaccine Strain Selection.” MIT News, 28 Aug. 2025, news.mit.edu/2025/vaxseer-ai-tool-to-improve-flu-vaccine-strain-selection-0828. VaxSeer is a new AI-driven tool developed at MIT’s CSAIL and Jameel Clinic. This innovative system aims to assist in selecting the optimal influenza strains for seasonal vaccines. VaxSeer utilizes deep learning models that have been…