NBC News AI models may be accidentally (and secretly) learning each other’s bad behaviors AI researcher David Bau, director of Northeastern University’s National Deep Inference Fabric, a project that aims to help researchers understand how large language models work, said these findings show how AI models could be vulnerable to data poisoning, allowing bad actors to more easily insert malicious traits into the models that they’re training.
Wired Italia Is ChatGPT really making us stupid? As Barbara Larson, professor of Management at Northeastern University, points out , “The smartest way to take advantage of artificial intelligence is to limit its role to that of an enthusiastic but somewhat naive assistant .”
The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games Cansu Canca, the director of responsible A.I. practice at Northeastern University in Boston, said there would be a risk to individual agency and privacy by normalizing the technology.
The Impact Of Faculty Tenure On Research Output Explored In New Study The researchers — including Dakota Murray (Northeastern University) — examined the careers of 12,611 U.S. faculty members across 15 disciplines, spanning the sciences, engineering, business and social sciences. Each of the scholars had been granted tenure between 2012 and 2015.
Study: Tenure Doesn’t Slow Average Research Output To find out more, researchers at Northwestern University, Northeastern University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison analyzed the careers of 12,000 U.S.-based faculty across 15 disciplines, including business, sociology and chemistry.
WCVB TV Cityline: Easing the financial burdens of college Wily Network helps local students focus on academics and mental health. The first in her family to attend college, Wily Scholar Nicki Pantiledes earned a full scholarship to Northeastern University. She’s now in her fourth year.
‘Old people are capable of more’: meet the female weightlifters in their 70s and 80s As they age, women’s physical abilities are often underestimated by others as well as themselves, says Elaina Manolis, a physical therapist and assistant clinical professor at Northeastern University.
‘Clueless’ just turned 30. A new anniversary glossary celebrates its language “We are seeing slang terms spreading in a way that we haven’t seen before, just because of how social media is such a ubiquitous part of the cultural landscape,” said Adam Cooper, director of the linguistics program at Northeastern University.
Answering Three Talent Questions: A Strategic Playbook For Winning Through People Dr. Curtis Odom is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University in Boston.
The Greenway Institute – Making Transformative Engineering Education Affordable The Roux Institute at Northeastern University launched in Portland, Maine in 2020, backed by tech entrepreneur David Roux and by the Harold Alfond Foundation, who each contributed $100-million gifts.
Is Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ cancellation really about money, or something more? Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
Fortune What comes after a startup exit? For women, it’s increasingly heading back to school “Many women navigate what I call ‘perception gaps,’ being underestimated or typecast based on their past roles,” says Laura Huang, a professor and associate dean of executive education at Northeastern University.
