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Using ChatGPT isn't an AI strategy
Daphne Koller explains the hard truths of AI adoption in this week's Big Think Class.
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CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report
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5 hours ago1 min read
Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away
Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic’s Claude Code to the launch of generative AI Meanwhile
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Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI’s Economic Upside Is Shared
In interview with The Wall Street Journal, Dario Amodei says the public isn’t prepared for the potential inequality that the technology might create
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5 hours ago1 min read
Why AI Disclosure Matters at Every Level
Hiding AI use can erode trust in the workplace and beyond, writes Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.
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8 hours ago1 min read
A Self-Driving System Attuned to the Rhythm of the Street
Soon available in the redesigned Mercedes-Benz CLA, the company’s new autonomous system can navigate traffic like a seasoned cabbie
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2 days ago1 min read
To Build a Better AI, Reverse Its Antisocial Tendencies
Engagement and addiction have fueled social-media platforms for decades, producing enormous profit and enormous harm. AI labs appear to be on the same track—but there’s a better alternative.
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2 days ago1 min read
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own. Excerpt: "For many computer scientists and mathematicians, solving an Erdos problem showed that artificial intelligence had reached a point where it was capable of doing legitimate academic research. But some experts were quick to point out that the solution generated by A.I. was not very different from earlier work done by
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5 days ago2 min read
Will AI rewire attention?
AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?
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5 days ago1 min read
The shift (return?) to skills-based economy
From roles to skills? INSIGHTS FROM THE WHARTON–ACCENTURE SKILLS INDEX (WASX) Related: How AI Is Reshaping Skills, Hiring, and Education Related: the new management skills needed
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How Can Companies Incentivize AI Adoption?
The road to meaningful AI adoption should be paved with employee incentives. Wharton’s Scott Snyder draws a map to show business leaders how they can get there.
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Jan 141 min read
7,000-year-old underwater wall raises questions about ancient engineering — and lost-city legends
Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.
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Jan 131 min read
Pondering "Social Physics" (UII w/Claude)
DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als
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Attention, and the prevailing societal lie
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie Related Paper Excerpt: " True attention cannot be measured by a machine. The fullness of our authentic human attention, shared with others, is the power with which we make the world. It’s worth fighting for."
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Jan 101 min read
Scientists Create Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Sand
They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices
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Jan 101 min read
A.I.: Powered by Nukes
Facebook parent will back nuclear projects with Oklo, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower and Vistra
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Jan 101 min read
Our AI Future Is Already Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
The opportunity for everyday folks to enhance their lives and work with AI has never been greater, but it can take experimentation and persistence
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Jan 101 min read
THE PEOPLE WHO MARRY CHATBOTS
A growing community is building a life with large language models. Related: is A.I. a mass-delusional event?
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Jan 91 min read
AI Is Being Used to Find Valuable Commodities in Our Trash
The push to boost domestic production of raw materials has turned attention to America’s waste stream
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Jan 91 min read
Brain Balls
Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?
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Jan 91 min read
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