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Category: Innovation
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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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“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…
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“Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life,” said the lead article in the August 31 issue of The Economist. A Digital Twin is essentially a computerized companion to a real-world entity, be it an industrial physical asset like a jet engine, an individual’s health profile, or a highly complex system like a city.…
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Earlier this year, MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gave the closing keynote at the 2024 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Professor Brooks was director of the MIT AI Lab from 1997 to 2003, and was the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2003 until 2007. A robotics entrepreneur, he’s founded…
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“It sure seems like the AI hype train is just leaving the station, and we should all hop aboard,” said “The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam,” a recent WSJ article by technology columnist Christopher Mims. “But significant disappointment may be on the horizon, both in terms of what AI can do, and the returns…
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“Have you recently heard the CEO or other senior executive of a company say something like, we’re a technology company now?” asked Andrew McAfee ealier this year in his keynote at the 2024 MIT IDE Annual Conference. McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder and co-director of…
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“Foundation models are the epicenter of artificial intelligence (AI) as AI begins to shape how the economy and society function,” begins “The Foundation Model Transparency Index v1.1 (FMTI v1.1),” a May, 2024 paper by a group of researchers from Stanford, MIT, and Princeton under the auspices of Stanford’s Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM).…
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Earlier this year, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence released the 2024 AI Index Report, its seventh annual edition of the impact, progress, and trends in AI. At over 500 pages and 9 chapters, the report aims to be the world’s most authoritative source for data and insights about AI in order to help…
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In its early decades, IT helped companies become significantly more productive by automating many of their processes, reengineering their overall operations, and reaching out beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. But, their actual products were largely unaffected. This has all been changing in the 21st century with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT),…