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In May of 2025, Linux Foundation Research, the Eclipse Foundation, and the open source community GOSIM jointly organized the Open Source AI Strategy Forum in Paris. The Forum aimed to address the critical challenges facing collaboration in open source AI with global experts from industry, academia, open source communities, and foundations. Two months later they published…
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The September 16, 2023 issue of The Economist included a special focus on “How AI Can Revolutionize Science” with three articles on the topic. “Debate about artificial intelligence (AI) tends to focus on its potential dangers: algorithmic bias and discrimination, the mass destruction of jobs and even, some say, the extinction of humanity,” noted the issue’s…
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“Even in a world with AI superintelligence, one thing will be true: we will always have the responsibility to make tough decisions,” wrote Bharat Chandar, — a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, — in “AI can’t make your toughest decisions.” “Nearly all consequential choices in life depend on a mix of two…
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Given that technologies have been automating human work over the past couple of centuries, — why hasn’t automation already wiped out a majority of jobs? Why are there still so many jobs left? The answer isn’t very complicated, although frequently overlooked, explained MIT economist David Autor in a 2015 article “Why Are There Still So…
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In December of 2024, the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) released “5 Trends for 2025” a report that examined how business leaders can empower people to innovate in the age of AI without putting the business at risk. “2024 was a year of letting go,” said the report in its Introduction. “As a combination…
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I retired from my long, 37-year career at IBM in June of 2007. At the time, I had already become affiliated with MIT’s Engineering Systems Division, and was looking forward to the graduate seminar that I’d be teaching that fall at MIT on Technology-based Business Transformation. “This course covers how to leverage major technology advances…
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About three years ago I started following and writing about Generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Models (LLMs), chatbots, and related topics. Then a few months ago I started hearing about agentic AI, and since then I’ve been trying to better understand what agentic AI is all about. I asked Babson College professor Tom Davenport, a prolific…
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“The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted significant attention for its potential economic impact,” wrote economists Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond in a recently published article, “Generative AI at Work.” “Although various generative AI tools have performed well in laboratory settings, questions remain about their effectiveness in the real world, where…
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The 2025 AI Index Report was released in early April by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, — it’s eigth annual analysis of the impact, progress, and trends of AI. Led by an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry, the AI Index report aims to be the world’s most authoritative source…
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I’ve been following the evolution of AI since the 1970s, especially the more recent era of data-centric AI systems based on highly sophisticated models trained with large amounts of information and powerful computer technologies. We were wowed when in 1997 Deep Blue won a celebrated chess match against then reigning champion Gary Kasparov, — one…