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Continue Reading on https://www.theverge.com/Chicago Public Schools comprise a vast, labyrinthine system boasting over 316,000 students across 630 locations. Many rank among America’s best. Many others are chronically underperforming Title 1 schools, with high volumes of students coming from economically disadvantaged families, ranking among the nation’s worst. AI could play a massive role in undoing the socioeconomic and racial gaps in...
Continue Reading on https://fortune.com/section/tech/It’s a tense time for workers—and really for anyone who uses infrastructure. If the past few weeks of winter-grid strain taught us anything, it’s that essential systems have less room for failure than most people realize. And we’re still maintaining them through reactive, manual methods, dispatching crews after something breaks instead of preventing failure in the first place. For all the...
Continue Reading on https://fortune.com/section/tech/Despite hopes for unlocking a new era soaring growth and abundance, AI has yet to manifest itself clearly in macro data, according to Apollo Chief Economic Torsten Slok. In a note on Saturday, he recalled economist Robert Solow’s quip from the 1980s as PCs were transforming the economy: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” The same thing can be said...
Continue Reading on https://fortune.com/section/tech/There has been a lot of hype around Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media platform for AI bots where humans aren’t allowed to post. But how, exactly, does it work? Should we worry about agentic AI taking over the world, or should we worry about our data? In this video, Mashable producer Teodosia Dobriyanova spoke to AI ethicist Catharina Doria who talked us through the latest AI hype, the...
Continue Reading on https://mashable.com/techIf there was an overriding message throughout the Super Bowl ads last night, it’s that artificial intelligence is your friend. Are you worried that artificial intelligence could cost you your job or make it impossible for your kids to get started in their careers? Don’t worry. AI means that average people with no training can write computer code and apps. Worried about reports of people...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techAs the Trump administration seeks to sweep away obstacles to developing artificial intelligence, the president’s team has brought its zeal for the new technology to the federal government itself. Orders came down from the White House budget office in April urging every corner of the government to deploy AI. “The Federal Government will no longer impose unnecessary bureaucratic restrictions on...
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/Want to understand how artificial intelligence could change your job? Look to radiology as a clue. Radiology has become a recent talking point in the AI race. It was mentioned multiple times last month by tech executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as in a White House whitepaper about AI and the economy. Radiology is far from being the only occupation impacted by AI, which...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techElectricians are getting harder to find, and some construction projects are on hold. Smartphones are expected to get pricier for potentially years to come. And promising innovations are being starved of investment funding. Those are just some of the domino effects from the technology industry’s insatiable spending on artificial intelligence, which is diverting resources and attention from...
Continue Reading on https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/New York — High school students are on the verge of entering a very different job market than earlier generations did. Experts in tech and economics largely agree that AI is poised to disrupt many jobs and may eliminate some altogether. And entry-level roles are likely to be at the forefront of that shift. While employment remains fairly high among all groups, it’s recently taken a dip for...
Continue Reading on https://edition.cnn.com/business/techInevitably, these conversations take a turn: AI is having all these ripple effects now, but if the technology gets better, what happens next? That’s usually when they look at me, expecting a forecast of either doom or hope. I probably disappoint, if only because predictions for AI are getting harder and harder to make. Despite that, MIT Technology Review has, I must say, a pretty excellent...
Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/AI is turning to supersonic jet engines to power its sprawling data centers. We talked to the company making these engines to learn about the symbiotic relationship between supersonic travel and AI. Topics Artificial Intelligence
Continue Reading on https://mashable.com/techThat number also does not include the use of LLMs by employees outside of official pilots. The MIT researchers found that around 90% of the companies they surveyed had a kind of AI shadow economy where workers were using personal chatbot accounts. But the value of that shadow economy was not measured. When the Upwork study looked at how well agents completed tasks together with people who...
Continue Reading on https://www.technologyreview.com/The first time I used ChatGPT to code, back in early 2023, I was reminded of “The Monkey’s Paw,” a classic horror story about an accursed talisman that grants wishes, but always by the most malevolent path — the desired outcome arrives after exacting a brutal cost elsewhere first. With the same humorless literalness, ChatGPT would implement the change I’d asked for, while also scrambling...
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