In the USA and all over the world, democracy is below menace. Anti-democratic attitudes have develop into extra prevalent, partisan polarization is rising, misinformation is omnipresent, and politicians and residents generally query the integrity of elections.  With this backdrop, the MIT Division of Political Science is launching an effort to determine a Strengthening Democracy Initiative.…

Have you ever ever wished to journey via time to see what your future self is likely to be like? Now, because of the facility of generative AI, you'll be able to. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere created a system that allows customers to have a web-based, text-based dialog with an AI-generated simulation of their…

In 1994, Florida jewellery designer Diana Duyser found what she believed to be the Virgin Mary’s picture in a grilled cheese sandwich, which she preserved and later auctioned for $28,000. However how a lot do we actually perceive about pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing faces and patterns in objects once they aren’t actually there?  A brand…

Think about having to straighten up a messy kitchen, beginning with a counter plagued by sauce packets. In case your aim is to wipe the counter clear, you may sweep up the packets as a gaggle. If, nevertheless, you needed to first pick the mustard packets earlier than throwing the remainder away, you'd type extra…

A brand new, multidisciplinary MIT graduate program in music know-how and computation will function college, labs, and curricula from throughout the Institute. This system is a collaboration between the Music and Theater Arts Part within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS); Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science (EECS) within the Faculty of…