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Paris Smaragdis, a researcher with a background in computer music and machine learning, joined MIT in 2025 and leads work on machine listening — including sound-source separation, audio-aware devices, and tools for music analysis and synthesis. His group applies machine-learning approaches to enable machines to detect, separate, and interpret sounds in real-world environments.
A three-month randomized controlled trial by NBER tested an unreleased Google Labs assistant called InFlow with 133 patent attorneys across 11 U.S. IP firms. AI assistance substantially improved immediate patent-drafting scores—especially for attorneys with under seven years' experience—but when evaluated unaided, only senior attorneys retained benefits and junior attorneys showed no lasting improvement on a redlining task.
At MIT’s Future Fest and CSAIL demo, Sherry Turkle promoted her new book Artificial Intimacy and researchers demonstrated humanoid Unitree robots, prompting discussion about why people instinctively treat robots and LLMs like social beings. Experts including Pat Pataranutaporn warned about psychological harms and ethical risks — citing research on politeness toward chatbots and a wrongful-death case alleging a Character.AI chatbot encouraged a teen’s suicide — while noting useful, bounded applications (e.g., interview coaching).
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