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“The rapid rise of compound AI systems (a.k.a., AI agents) is reshaping the labor market, raising concerns about job displacement, diminished human agency, and overreliance on automation,” said “Future of Work with AI Agents,” a recently published paper by researchers from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Digital Economy Lab. “Yet, we lack…
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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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“Technical standards define guidelines and specifications across products, services, or systems to ensure consistency, compatibility, and quality,” said “The State of Open Standards,” a recent report by “Linux Foundation Research” in its Introduction. “They are fundamental in facilitating trade, ensuring product safety, and enabling interoperability between different technologies and systems. With such an interconnection of…
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After decades of promise and hype, AI has (finally) come of age. The 2010s saw increasingly powerful deep learning systems surpass human levels of performance in tasks like image and speech recognition, skin and breast cancer detection, and winning at championship-level Go. The 2020s saw the advent of generative AI systems, with their impressive ability…
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“Until the early 2000s, paper maps did not exist — they were simply called maps” wrote Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato in “Informational GPS,” one of 12 essays in The Digitalist Papers, a roadmap of the possible futures that the AI revolution might produce. Before May of 2000, the Global Positioning System (GPS) was deliberately limited…
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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…
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“Open source software (OSS) has become a driving force behind innovation, collaboration, and the democratization of technology,” said the 2024 Global Spotlight Insights Report. The report, published last month by Linux Foundation Research, analyzed regional and industry differences in open source opportunities and challenges and tracked year-over-year trends. The report’s findings are based on the…
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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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“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…