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Category: Complex Systems
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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…
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“The central purpose of supply chains is to fulfill the needs and wants of humanity — delivering all the food, medicine, energy, apparel, and other worldly goods needed by the eight billion people in the planet,” wrote MIT professor Yossi Sheffi in the preface of his 2023 book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.…
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A recent issue of The Economist featured a technology focus on “The breakthrough AI needs” with eight articles on the topic. “Two years after ChatGPT took the world by storm, generative artificial intelligence seems to have hit a roadblock,” said the issue’s lead article. “The energy costs of building and using bigger models are spiralling,…
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I’ve been a member of the Linux Foundation (LF) Research Advisory Board for the past three years. At a September, 2023 meeting of the Advisory Board, we discussed that one of the few industry sectors in which the LF doesn’t have projects is healthcare, — despite the size and importance of healthcare around the world.…
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A few weeks ago I posted “AI Advances Aren’t Likely to Occur Nearly as Quickly as Many Believe,” a blog focused on a research paper, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI,” by MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, — a co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The blog referenced a NY Times article, “What…
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“For the financial services industry, open source collaboration is a strategically relevant practice” said “The 2024 State of Open Source in Financial Services,” the fourth annual research report by the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) in partnership with Linux Foundation Research. Over the past four years, this study has aimed to provide concrete industry-wide trends…
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Since 2011, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an annual list of the Top Ten Emerging Technologies that are likely to be disruptive within three to five years. The Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024 was released by the WEF in June. The report is based on the insights of over 300 world-leading academics…
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“What if the A.I. Boosters Are Wrong?,” asked a recent NY Times article in its title. “A skeptical paper by Daron Acemoglu, a labor economist at M.I.T., has triggered a heated debate over whether artificial intelligence will supercharge productivity,” it added. “The bullish camp has great hopes for AI,” such as whether the technology will…
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“Mistaking the impressive engineering achievements of LLMs for the mastering of human language, language understanding, and linguistic acts has dire implications for various forms of social participation, human agency, justice and policies surrounding them,” wrote cognitive scientists Abeba Birhane and Marek McGann in a recent paper, “Large models of what? Mistaking engineering achievements for human…
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“Social media provide a steady diet of dire warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) will make software engineering (SE) irrelevant or obsolete,” wrote CMU computer scientists Eunsuk Kang and Mary Shaw in their September, 2024 paper, “tl;dr: Chill, y’all: AI Will Not Devour SE.” [tl;dr: a summary of a longer text]. “To the contrary, the engineering…