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Postscript: On May 16, 2025, MIT issued a press release explaining the concerns raised about the integrity of the research in the preprint of the paper “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation” that was published on arXiv in November 2024 and referenced in this blog. ======================================================================================= On December 29, the WSJ published “Will AI…
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“Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has the potential to drive significant improvements in workforce productivity at the level of tasks, organizations and economies,” said a recent report “Leveraging Generative AI for Job Augmentation and Workforce Productivity: Scenarios, Case Studies and a Framework for Action,” by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with PwC. “Delivering those gains…
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General purpose technologies (GPTs) are the defining technologies of their times. They are engines for growth that can radically transform the economic environment. “Early versions of GPTs often look very different from their mature forms,” wrote MIT’s Isabella Loaiza and Roberto Rigobon in “The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work.” “Only after waves of…
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MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks has been posting an annual Predictions Scorecard in rodneybrooks.com since January 1, 2018, where he predicts future milestones in three technology areas: AI and robotics, self driving cars, and human space travel. He also reviews the actual progress in each of these areas to see how his past predictions have…