Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
In a new study, MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. The researchers hooked them to an EEG to see which parts of their brains were active or not. [arXiv, PDF] The […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/
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DesignBoom : MIT engineers develop a ‘window’ that converts dry desert air into safe drinking water https://www.designboom.com/technology/mit-engineers-window-converts-dry-desert-air-safe-drinking-water-06-15-2025/ #waterfiltrationsystems #climatechange #MITmedialab #technology
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〝Pritzker prize-winning Architect Fumihiko Maki, who died last week at the age of 95, was known worldwide for combining sharp angles with floating forms. He employed both for the Media Lab's iconic Building E14—an extension of the original Media Lab building designed by I.M. Pei.〞
https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/fumihiko-maki/
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The visionary #TNC24 closing keynote from Nataliya Kosmyna, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) gave us a glimpse into the future 👀
We heard about interactions between artificial intelligence and human intelligence, devices & robots controlled by brain waves, new ways of interfacing with computers for the betterment of humanity! Additionally, she highlighted the paramount role of infrastructure in enabling the work of #researchers.
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"...the real culprit is a political and economic system that puts profit above all else, and a society that is willing to let workers be mistreated."
Robots Aren't Coming for Your Job...the System Is
- Dr. Kate Darling, #MITmedialab
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SERC starting ...
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At #mitmedialab they are teaching conversational #AI: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07542
They provide all the tools to build a bot, including a #machinelearning pipeline that uses DistilBERT: a #transformer-based language model #languagemodels trained with much less data.
They say it is going to be open-sourced. Looking forward to it!
Researchers at MIT Media Lab have tested modular tiles that autonomously assemble to create habitats in space on the latest mission to the International Space Station.
Called Tesserae, the project aims to create future space habitats from reconfigurable tiles that assemble while in orbit around the moon or Earth.
MIT suggested the tiles can be used to form designs from "geodesic dome habitats, to microgravity concert halls, to space cathedrals."
The tiles are released from a spaceship and assemble in orbit. Rendering courtesy of TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute
Each 3D-printed tile is made of a rigid plastic outer shell with either five or six sides, with two indented holes for electromagnets.
These magnets allow the tiles to autonomously "snap" or bond together to form tesselated structures – polyhedral, enclosed shapes that resemble a honeycomb.
The bonding is designed to be both watertight and weathertight, making the structures suitable for future human habitation, and each tile also has a system for power harvesting and management.
Tesserae tiles autonomously assemble to create structures in space. Rendering courtesy of MIT Space Exploration Initiative / TU Dortmund Fraunhofer Institute
"I hope to apply the Tesserae technology to build an entirely novel type of space architecture – large scale structures that can inspire awe and delight their occupants," said Ariel Ekblaw, director and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) space exploration initiative.
"We're about to enter a renaissance moment for space architecture where in-space structures can both protect humans and bring joy," she told Dezeen.
Tesserae tiles were tested on the latest ISS mission. Image courtesy of Aurelia Institute / ISS Ax-1 Mission, Axiom Space
Ekblaw, who began developing the Tesserae technology during her PhD at MIT Media Lab, named the project Tesserae after the small, coloured tiles used in ancient Roman mosaics.
It is also an acronym for Tessellated Electromagnetic Space Structures for the Exploration of Reconfigurable, Adaptive Environments.
Every tile is made of a rigid plastic outer shell with either five or six sides. Image courtesy of Aurelia Institute / ISS Ax-1 Mission, Axiom Space
"We use bio-inspired processes like self-assembly and swarm robotics to explore a new paradigm for space architecture – building grand scale space structures in orbit," Ekblaw said.
"Our tessellated shell structure approach proposes multifunctional tiles that assemble autonomously via magnetically-mediated bonding along regular, geometric edges."
While the biggest prototype tiles are only a few inches in diameter, the at-scale Tesserae tiles will have a five-foot-long edge so that when combined, they will be able to house people.
When they bond together they form watertight structures
Unlike many current outer space structures, which are often rigid and made on Earth before being transported, the Tesserae tiles can be applied to many shapes and come flat-packed before being deployed in space.
They can also disassemble autonomously.
"The team behind Tesserae believes that their modular, self-assembly method can lower payload weight and reduce construction complexity, while also broadening the possibilities of what future space architecture may look like," explained Ekblaw.
"As habitation and operation needs evolve around new commercial space stations in low earth orbit and exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, space architecture must adapt to address new use-case and deployment contexts."
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Read:
SOM's inflatable habitats could allow people to "thrive over the long term" on the Moon
](https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/07/moon-village-human-centric-inflatable-habitat-the-moon/)
On 8 April 2022, Tesserae was one of 25 experiments on Axiom's private ten-day research mission to NASA's astronomical and research centre, the International Space Station (ISS). While here, astronauts released seven tiles into space and observed how they bonded together.
It was the first-ever private ISS mission and was flown in partnership with SpaceX, the spacecraft manufacturer founded by Elon Musk.
The structures could become habitable in the future
According to the mission's findings, the tiles successfully fused together and will be trialled next in 2023.
"We're delighted to report that we demonstrated successful good bonds, correct error detection and magnet pulse-off correction and a stable dome configuration," said Ekblaw.
"We expect to deploy our next, iterative spaceflight test in 2023 and will continue to work with collaborators towards our long term vision for human habitability," explained Ekblaw.
Founded in 1985 and based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, MIT Media Lab researches topics including astrophysics, robotic technology and sustainable cities.
Last year, former NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman was appointed director of MIT Media Lab. Past projects include Neri Oxman's 3D-printed death masks which are designed to contain the wearer's last breath.
Images courtesy of Aurelia Institute / Igor Neminov unless otherwise stated.
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MIT Media Lab chooses BioSuit inventor Dava Newman as its new director
Former NASA deputy administrator, astronautics researcher and inventor of the BioSuit Dava Newman will be the new director of MIT Media Lab.
Newman will take up the role as MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics on 1 July 2021.
"Leading the legendary Media Lab is a dream for me," said Newman.
"I can't wait to help write the next chapter of this uniquely creative, impactful, compassionate community."
Top and above: Newman in the BioSuit. See project credits below
Newman worked for NASA during the Obama administration and her research has focused on supporting the human body in space to help make interplanetary exploration a reality.
She is the designer of the BioSuit, a flexible skintight spacesuit for astronauts to wear on Mars.
Created in collaboration with NASA and MIT, the BioSuit was designed as a practical alternative to traditional rigid gas-filled pressure-controlled suits called extravehicular mobility units.
The stretchy skintight suit would be reinforced with an exoskeleton formed by a complex pattern of 3D lines. The goal of the BioSuit is to create something that could be put on by an astronaut in under ten minutes – saving precious time and money during expensive space flights.
Newman will bring this experience to MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research organisation that brings together experts from a wide range of arts and science subjects.
"The magic of the Media Lab, which I hope to help build on, is to provide a trusted, open-minded, stimulating space where each person can contribute extraordinary expertise while being stretched beyond their comfort zone to collectively imagine a better, bolder future," she said.
The previous director of the MIT Media Lab Joichi Ito resigned in September 2019 after allegations that he took elaborate steps to hide donations from the convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched an investigation into the claims after a New York Times investigation found the Media Lab had allegedly received around $800,000 in donations from Epstein, who died in jail awaiting child sex trafficking charges in August 2019.
Designer Neri Oxman subsequently apologised to her students at MIT Media Lab for accepting $125,000 from Epstein for her Mediated Matter Group in 2015.
Images courtesy of MIT.
BioSuit project credits:
Inventor, science and engineering: Professor Dava Newman, MIT
Design: Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates (Cambridge, MA)
Fabrication: Dainese (Vicenza, Italy)
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