"Step into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, US, and the future feels a little closer. Glass cabinets display prototypes of weird and wonderful creations, from tiny desktop robots to a surrealist sculpture created by an AI model prompted to design a tea set made from body parts. In the lobby, an AI waste-sorting assistant named Oscar can tell you where to put your used coffee cup."
"Kosmyna herself had been struck by how quickly people had already begun to rely on generative AI. She noticed colleagues using ChatGPT at work, and the applications she received from researchers hoping to join her team started to look different. Their emails were longer and more formal and, sometimes, when she interviewed candidates on Zoom, she noticed they kept pausing before responding and looking off to the side were they getting AI to help them, she wondered, shocked."
The MIT Media Lab showcases experimental prototypes ranging from desktop robots to AI-generated sculptures and an AI waste-sorting assistant named Oscar. Research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna develops wearable brain–computer interfaces to enable communication for people who cannot speak due to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Kosmyna also works on a wearable glasses-like device that detects confusion or loss of focus. She received unsolicited messages from people reporting memory changes after using large language models like ChatGPT. She observed rapid adoption of generative AI among colleagues and applicants and set up an electroencephalography experiment to track brain activity during AI-assisted essay writing.
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