News

Over a thousand MIT affiliates respond to The Tech’s LLM usage survey

Interested in learning about the impact of LLMs on the MIT community, The Tech sent out an LLM usage survey from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18. Over 1,000 MIT affiliates responded.

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Sloan Dean Richard M. Locke warns of AI automation and asserts need to reimagine education

MIT Sloan Dean Richard M. Locke PhD ‘89 bluntly warned that AI automation is set to reshape white-collar jobs and called on universities to reimagine education in an address and panel at the MIT Human Insight Collaborative event on Monday, Nov. 17.

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Lobby of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building on Vassar St. (Building 45). Samuel Yuan–The Tech
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Enrollment for programming classes 6.100A/L, 6.1010, and 6.1020 has decreased ever since the 2022-2023 academic year. Vivian Hir–The Tech
News

Course 6 and 18 faculty members share mixed perspectives on AI in the classroom

A recent emphasis on AI fluency is shaping the way undergraduate computer science programs are approaching their curriculum.

News

SHASS professors share wide-ranging views on AI in the classroom

Since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in Nov. 2022, the chatbot has generated trillions of words, upending traditional modes of humanistic education in the process.

News

Enrollment for 6.100A/L, 6.1010, and 6.1020 has declined since 2022-2023

Enrollment for the major Course 6 programming classes – 6.100A/L, Fundamentals of Programming (6.1010), and Software Construction (6.1020) – has decreased over the past three years, following an overall increase from 2018 to 2022.

Science

Turning to the text box: How LLMs are used by first-years taking 8.01

Students and instructors in Physics I (8.01) discuss how AI has impacted how the class is taught.

Science

Making a computer solve your math problems

Chase Norman describes the technology and design of his automated theorem prover.

Arts

MIT Symphony Orchestra’s second fall concert is a veritable display of technique

Adam Boyles conducts MITSO through Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, with Justin Yamaguchi ’28 as violin soloist.

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When DALL·E is prompted with "be creative," whose notion of creativity does it represent? Karie Shen with DALL·E–The Tech
Arts

When algorithms create, who’s the artist?

MIT scholars Dr. Ziv Epstein and Professor Justin Khoo comment on AI art.

Arts

‘Kim’s Convenience’: A heartwarming comedy

Kim’s Convenience humorously tells the story of a Korean immigrant family in Canada, with themes of family obligation and reconciling cultural differences.

Opinion

Where allegations become facts and free speech is selective

Why was my essay on academic freedom and freedom of expression censored while Ian Hutchinson’s defamatory attack was published?

Passing

In current events, signing a compact with the US government to decide who defines MIT would have been passing.

Free speech needs defenders, not gatekeepers

Free speech faces new challenges in all corners of America, and we call on MIT to fight to protect it.

Campus Life

Getting older

People talk about adolescence as if it’s the time when you get to decipher your future… but as I’m nearing the end of mine, I feel even more lost.

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Why do we travel?

Dealing with toxicity

Advice for filtering out the toxic past

Science

Making a computer solve your math problems

Chase Norman describes the technology and design of his automated theorem prover.

Turning to the text box: How LLMs are used by first-years taking 8.01

Students and instructors in Physics I (8.01) discuss how AI has impacted how the class is taught.

Preventing the next bioweapon

As artificial intelligence advances, biotech leaders team up to boost DNA synthesis screening software security