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Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT...

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2025/08/10

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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines,...

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2025/08/09

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The Jagged Frontier

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2025/08/05

ChatGPT is the most well known of the Large Language Models (LLMs) but what is an LLM? We go deep into how this remarkable new technology is built, and why their performance is inconsistent — or jagged — across similar tasks. We dive into the techniques AI engineers use to align these tools’ behavior with our values, and explain why they don’t always work, and sometimes we get hallucinations or biased output. This episode was produced by Steven Jackson and Jesse DukesEditing: Alexandra

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The Jagged Frontier

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2025/08/05

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How AI is Reshaping Medical Imagery with MIT CSAIL...

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2025/08/04

AI is transforming radiology, but not at the expense of skilled technicians. In the same way that personal computers and spreadsheets didn’t eliminate accountants, AI is not going to replace radiologists but will instead transform the way they work. MIT CSAIL Professor Polina Golland’s research sits at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare, specifically medical imaging. In this episode, she discusses her team’s groundbreaking work on algorithms that analyze subtle patterns in

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Researcher Spotlight: Gautam Rao on co-producing...

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2025/07/30

In this episode, host Sambhav Choudhury speaks with Gautam Rao, Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. From his unconventional journey from electronics engineering to economics, Gautam shares insights on his behavioral economics and mental health research in India. He discusses his collaborative study on psychotherapy's long-term effects in Goa, explores effective strategies for building partnerships with policymakers, and emphasizes the importance of fieldwork in challenging academic

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Researcher Spotlight: Gautam Rao on co-producing...

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2025/07/30

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"Buckle Up, Here it Comes!"

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2025/07/29

In late November of 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a free research preview. Students quickly realized ChatGPT was pretty good at doing their homework for them. Schools scrambled to figure out what to do: Ban it? Embrace it? Teachers and students found themselves adapting to a new reality. Buckle Up, Here it Comes kicks off “The Homework Machine” a mini series in the Teachlab podcast. Hosts Jesse Dukes and Justin Reich share stories of teachers and students reacting to the arrival

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"Buckle Up, Here it Comes!"

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2025/07/29

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Coming Soon: The Homework Machine

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2025/07/25

Generative AI is not like other education technologies, which schools often invite into the classroom. This one crashed the party. And then, it started re-arranging the furniture. We wanted to learn more, so in a little over a year, the Teaching Systems Lab has talked to over 90 teachers and 30 students about the impact of Generative AI. Some are excited about AI's potential to transform education for the better. Others are troubled by the temptations of a machine that can quickly and

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Coming Soon: The Homework Machine

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2025/07/25

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Me, Myself, and AI: Building Better Answers With AI...

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2025/07/24

In this special crossover episode, we're bringing you a conversation from our friends at Me, Myself, and AI, a podcast by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group. Walter Sun, Senior VP and Global Head of AI at SAP, joins hosts Shervin Khodabandeh and Sam Ransbotham for a deep dive into how SAP is deploying AI at scale across its platforms, from building a generative AI hub with access to over 30 large language models to developing specialized AI agents that reduce

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Me, Myself, and AI: Building Better Answers With AI...

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2025/07/24

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Coming Soon: The Homework Machine

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2025/07/24

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Coming Soon: The Homework Machine

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2025/07/24

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Researcher Spotlight: Harini Kannan on designing and...

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2025/07/23

In this episode, host Sambhav Choudhury speaks with Harini Kannan, Research Scientist at J-PAL South Asia. Harini shares her journey from being inspired by budget speeches as a child to pursuing a career in development economics. Drawing from her extensive experience collaborating with government partners across India, Harini offers valuable insights into building effective partnerships and scaling evidence-informed programs.

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Researcher Spotlight: Harini Kannan on designing and...

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2025/07/23

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Two Approaches to Monetizing External Developer...

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2025/07/17

Martin Mocker reads MIT CISR's July 2025 research briefing, which he co-authored with Ina Sebastian. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2025_0701_MonetizingExDPs_MockerSebastian. Abstract: To gain additional value from their digital platforms, some companies open them to external developers via APIs, thereby creating external developer platforms (ExDPs). Many companies struggle to monetize ExDPs, though. This briefing compares two distinct approaches

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Two Approaches to Monetizing External Developer...

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2025/07/17

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Researcher Spotlight: Ariel Zucker on field-driven...

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2025/07/16

In this episode, host Sambhav Choudhury speaks with Ariel Zucker, Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. Ariel discusses her journey from an early interest in global health disparities to becoming a development economist specializing in experimental approaches. She shares insights from her research on health interventions for diabetes patients and groundwater conservation in India, highlighting how she balances theoretical frameworks with practical field realities to create

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