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Category: Complex Systems
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“There is significant interest in the development and application of foundation models for scientific discovery,” said Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery and Innovation,” a recent report from the National Academies. “Foundation models possess the capacity to generate outputs or findings and discern patterns within extensive data sets with data volumes that are considered overwhelming for…
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“Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream,” said a recent NBC News article. “Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline over the last decade. Just 33% agree a four-year…
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“The term Embodied AI is having its moment in the sun right now,” wrote MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks in a recent post, “Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence.” Brooks was a former director of the MIT AI Lab, and the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). In addition, he has…
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When OpenAI released the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT in late 2022, expectations inside the company were modest. Earlier consumer-facing language models had drawn little interest—or even backlash. Instead, ChatGPT became perhaps the most successful consumer product in history. As a recent New York Times article, “The Race to Build the World’s Best Friend,” reported, in…
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Given AI’s continuing advances, many observers argue that we’re entering a new technological revolution. But are we? To make sense of the moment we’re living through, it’s helpful to step back and look at the broader historical patterns that have shaped past waves of disruptive innovation. Few scholars have done more to illuminate these patterns…
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“In the expectation that artificial intelligence will be transformative, large American tech firms poured over $400bn into data centres and other necessary infrastructure during 2025; by one estimate, a staggering $7trn will be spent by the end of the decade,” wrote The Economist in its November 10 issue on “The World Ahead 2026.” “Yet revenues…
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“As artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes culture, science, labor markets, and the aggregate economy, experts debate its value, risks, and how quickly it will integrate into everyday life,” noted “The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel,” a recently published report. “Leaders of AI companies forecast transformative AI systems that cure all diseases, replace whole classes of jobs, and…
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“In small factories across America, agile automatons are making everything from parts for AI supercomputers to the hulls of America’s future autonomous naval weapons,” wrote technology columnist Christopher Mims in a recent WSJ article, “America’s Manufacturing Resurgence Will Be Powered by These Robots.” “Once a luxury reserved for big manufacturers, smaller, smarter, more flexible and less…
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“As GenAI tools handle more routine programming tasks, the software developer’s responsibilities shift to supervising these tools,” wrote Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professors Mary Shaw, Michael Hilton, and George Fairbanks in “AI Tools Make Design Skills More Important than Ever,” a column that will be published in the IEEE Software issue of Jan-Feb 2026. “Accordingly,…
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“The U.S. is spending billions of dollars and burning gigawatts of energy in a rush to beat China to the next evolutionary leap in artificial intelligence — one so great, some boosters say, that it will rival the atomic bomb in its power to change the global order,” wrote the WSJ in a recent article…