I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong about any of this. (That’s for another day.) But in a world where nobody knows what’s coming, companies like Anthropic get to fill the vacuum. It’s... Read more »
A teenager who develops an unhealthy attachment to an AI companion may never appear in a lawsuit or a newspaper, except in the most egregious cases. Neither will the student who begins... Read more »
We have historically allowed debates over technology to be defined by the worst thing a product might do, with remarkably little discussion of the insidious damage it does every day. A third... Read more »
In the new Impossible issue of MIT Technology Review, we ran progress reports on six potentially transformative technologies and ideas that have been “just around the corner” for years, or even decades.... Read more »
I couldn’t help feeling some empathy for Holmes, a mother we see preparing to leave her two kids for a lengthy prison sentence. And even though I have long known the facts,... Read more »
Increasingly, the answer depends on the serving harness—the engineering system surrounding the model, including the architecture, memory management, scheduling, and optimization decisions that determine how efficiently model intelligence becomes a production capability.... Read more »
About the speaker Jing Wang, Principal, Center for AI and Insights, Vanguard Jing Wang leads Vanguard’s Center for AI & Insights (CAI), advancing the firm’s AI, machine learning, generative AI, and behavioral... Read more »
1 AI has uncovered a decade-old flaw threatening much of the webIt found flaws in PHP, the code behind most websites. (Reuters $)+ Governments are urging website owners to patch PHP or... Read more »
Devavrat: It’s a fantastic question. And as you correctly noted, we’re at the cusp of becoming experimental to mainstream as far as AI is concerned. As you know, I’ve been teaching AI... Read more »
The great news for both of us is that my colleague James Temple just published two in-depth stories about permafrost. His reporting took him to the boreal forests of Alaska, where he... Read more »