Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve
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The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
“I wanted to save lives”
When Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell ’06 won the National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award,…
How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day
On June 6, 1944, the Allies deposited nearly 160,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy,…
The Renaissance man from Port Gamble Bay
When Anthony Jones ’08 reminisces about his childhood, he thinks of clams. Growing up on…
Arvola Chan ’74, SM ’76, EE ’78, PhD ’80
“I spent 10 years at MIT, earning four degrees in electrical engineering and computer science,”…
Harnessing MIT’s collective power
One of the things I’ve come to value deeply about the MIT community is the…
A Note from the Editor
What are we going to eat? It is the eternal question. We humans have been…
The algorithms around us
A metronome ticks. A record spins. And as a feel-good pop track plays, a giant…
Study: People dislike stories they think were written by AI… even if they were written by humans
Stories written by the latest version of ChatGPT were nearly as good as those written…