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The 2025 AI Index Report: AI’s Influence Across Society Continues to Transform the Way We Live and Work
No comments on The 2025 AI Index Report: AI’s Influence Across Society Continues to Transform the Way We Live and WorkThe 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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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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A recent 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 lead…
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A recent NY Times article, “In Battle Over A.I., Meta Decides to Give Away Its Crown Jewels,” reported that Meta, — the technology giant that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, — made the decision to open source LLaMA, its state-of-the-art large language model (LLM), making the code available to academics, government researchers and others once…
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“Is it really the next big thing,” asked The Economist in A reality check for the metaverse is coming, another recent article in “The World Ahead 2023”, its year-end issue which I wrote about last week. “After desktop computing, the consumer internet and the smartphone boom, the consumer-computing industry is past due its Next Big…
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Transformative technologies are generally accompanied by a mixture of excitement and confusion in their early years. Something important is going on out there, although there’s no consensus on what it is yet. A major reason for the lack of consensus is that there’s no single dimension around which to define an emerging technology or business…
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A few weeks ago I attended The Supply Chain Economy: Understanding Innovation in Services, a virtual seminar sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations with economists Mercedes Delgado and Karen Mills discussing their recent paper A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy. The debate about the drivers of innovation and job creation has long been…
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I recently heard a very interesting presentation at the 2019 MIT CIO Symposium, – Why Companies Need an Augmented Reality Strategy, – by Harvard professor Michael Porter and James Heppelmann, CEO of PTC, an industrial software company. The talk was based on their HBR article A Manager’s Guide to Augmented Reality. We generally think of…
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Earlier this year, Scientific American, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, published a special report on The Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2017. These technologies, – selected by a global panel of experts, – “are expected to become increasingly commonplace in the next few years,” and are “attracting increased funding or showing other signs…
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Service Science emerged in the mid-2000s as an academic discipline aimed at applying technology and science to the service sector, – by far the largest sector of the US economy and of most economies around the world. Since its inception, IBM has played a major role in the continuing evolution of service science, coining the…