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Brain surgery training from an avatar | MIT News
Benjamin Warf, a renowned neurosurgeon at Boston Children’s Hospital, stands in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab. More than 3,000 miles away, his virtual avatar stands next to Matheus Vasconcelos in Brazil as the resident practices delicate surgery on a doll-like model of a baby’s brain. With a pair of virtual-reality goggles, Vasconcelos is able to watch…
Reddit is reportedly selling data for AI training
Reddit has negotiated a content licensing deal to allow its data to be used for training AI models, according to a Bloomberg report. Just ahead of a potential $5 billion initial public offering (IPO) debut in March, Reddit has reportedly signed a $60 million deal with an undisclosed major AI company. This move could be…
Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avoid for AI training
OpenAI made waves this week with its bold assertion to a UK parliamentary committee that it would be “impossible” to develop today’s leading AI systems without using vast amounts of copyrighted data. The company argued that advanced AI tools like ChatGPT require such broad training that adhering to copyright law would be utterly unworkable. In…
Synthetic imagery sets new bar in AI training efficiency | MIT News
Data is the new soil, and in this fertile new ground, MIT researchers are planting more than just pixels. By using synthetic images to train machine learning models, a team of scientists recently surpassed results obtained from traditional “real-image” training methods. At the core of the approach is a system called StableRep, which doesn’t just…