Sweep victory 🧹

Boston has booked another trip to the NBA Finals 🏆

Caitlin Morris, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces group, is among the 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows (@MITDesignAcad). Morris is an artist, researcher, and educator creating work around themes of perception + the human-environment relationship. media.mit.edu/posts/caitlin-…

Your 2023-2024 Eastern Conference Champs 🏆☘️

Gear up like a pro and get Finals ready:
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The talk about hallucinations in LLMs has gotten it all wrong. The true hallucinations are by company execs who think it is OK to release to general users products that are based on LLMs that confabulate wildly, as all LLMs do. Time will show a high price paid by society.

Excellent article and astounding graphic. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/05/24/are…

Hector Astrom, an undergraduate researcher in the Affective Computing group, received the 2024 MIT Outstanding UROP Student Award—First-Year Undergraduate. media.mit.edu/posts/hector-a…

Age 18-60, Android phone user, live near Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)? Earn $195 in this MIT Media Lab sleep study tinyurl.com/MITSleepStudy

If you are a student interested in building the next generation of AI systems, don't work on LLMs

Looking forward to sharing the stage online tomorrow ilp.mit.edu/Digital-Health

FDA recalls defective iOS app that injured over 200 insulin pump users (iPhone users only) theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152… via @Verge

First They Came, by Martin Niemoller

Congratulations to Seize the Grey, MyRacehorse, and Jaime A. Torres for winning #Preakness149 !

Don't miss the deadline to submit your Letter of Intent for the Epilepsy Foundation's Shark Tank Competition 2024! The finals will be held at the Pipeline Conference on Sept 25-26, 2024, in Atlanta. Submit your entry by May 20, 2024. Details: bit.ly/3HrC1VA

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Congratulations to Media Lab PhD students Patrick Chwalek and Jocelyn Shen (@mitprg) on being selected as recipients of the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund awards for 2024!
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This is BIG. Thank you, @Empatica, for opening the platform!

We have lost a great man and @mit alum, Jim Simons.
Jim was generous to #autism research, to mathematics, and to all of us when we had the privilege of sharing our ideas and work with him. His eyes would close as he listened... and we would worry. Then, he would ask a great

Happy Birthday Deblina!

Talk about 'the low but real risk of SUDEP' and what can be done to reduce its risk. It's taking too many lives that might be saved if people were informed. Doctors, stop being timid: Parents can handle the truth: They sign forms indicating a (small but nonzero) risk of death

On @theofficialacm's ByteCast, Professor Rosalind Picard and host Scott Hanselman 🌮 talk about the work of the Media Lab's Affective Computing group, and the importance of informed consent, privacy, and data accuracy when researching people's emotional states. learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep51-…