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“AI is changing the cost and availability of expertise, and that will fundamentally alter how businesses organize and compete,” said “Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise,” a Harvard Business Rreview (HBR) article by Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani and Microsoft corporate strategists Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, and Yang Li. At its most…
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In his legendary 1965 paper, “The Future of Integrated Circuits,” Intel co-founder Gordon Moore first made the empirical observation that the number of components in integrated circuits had been doubling every year since their invention in 1958. Moore predicted that the trend would continue for at least ten years, a prediction he subsequently changed to…
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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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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…
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“In the complex and rapidly evolving business landscape and volatile global market conditions, supply chains cannot thrive in isolation,” begins “Building Constellations of Value — Transforming Supply Chains to Drive Collaboration, Innovation, and Long-Term Value,” a recently published report by the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI), an organization focused on the evolution of enterprise supply…
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On January 1, MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks published his 2025 Predictions Scorecard. A member of MIT’s faculty since 1984, Brooks was director of the MIT AI Lab from 1997 to 2003, and the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2003 until 2007. He’s also been a robotics entrepreneur,…
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A few weeks ago, MIT News published an article on “What do we know about the economics of AI?” The article is based on the research of MIT Nobel laureate professor Daron Acemoglu, who in October was awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with his MIT colleague Simon Johnson and University…
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A few weeks ago, The Economist published “The World Ahead 2025,” its 39th annual issue that examines the trends and events that will likely shape the coming year. Last year, the overriding message from “The World Ahead 2024” was the mind-boggling speed at which life was changing, from the Middle East turmoil and economic uncertainty…
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“During this period of astonishing technical progress and public engagement on artificial intelligence, the world has been grappling with how to get AI right — and for good reason,” wrote James Manyika, in “Getting AI Right: A 2050 Thought Experiment.” Manyika is Senior Vice President of Research, Technology and Society at Google and Chairman Emeritus…