Avoiding value decay in digital transformation
“Most implementations are viewed as IT projects,” says Tim Hertzig, a principal in Deloitte’s Technology practice and global product owner...
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Reckoning with generative AI’s uncanny valley
Mental models and antipatterns Mental models are an important concept in UX and product design, but they need to be...
How Wayve’s driverless cars will meet one of their biggest challenges yet
Figuring out why the model behaves as it does tells Wayve what kinds of scenarios require extra help. Using a...
The Download: the AI Hype Index, and spotting machine-written text
Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solveIt’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers...
Why agriculture is a tough climate problem to solve
It’s a real problem, from a climate perspective at least, that burgers taste good, and so do chicken sandwiches and...
Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
SynthID introduces additional information at the point of generation by changing the probability that tokens will be generated, explains Kohli. ...
What do jumping spiders find sexy? How DIY tech is offering insights into the animal mind.
The raccoon smart box Why are raccoons so good at city living? One theory is that it’s because they’re flexible...
The Download: introducing the Food issue
What are we going to eat? It is the eternal question. We humans have been asking ourselves this for as...
Introducing: The AI Hype Index
There’s no denying that the AI industry moves fast. Each week brings a bold new announcement, product release, or lofty...
GMOs could reboot chestnut trees
“It’s a hard time to be a tree. But there’s some really interesting promise and hope.” It is this genetically...
How MIT’s Rad Lab rescued D-Day
But the dreadful European weather—overcast and stormy, particularly in the late fall, winter, and early spring months—rendered all that firepower...
“I wanted to save lives”
At 14, Bell enrolled in the highly selective Brooklyn Technical High School, where she divided her time between academics and...
Arvola Chan ’74, SM ’76, EE ’78, PhD ’80
“I spent 10 years at MIT, earning four degrees in electrical engineering and computer science,” says Arvola Chan ’74, SM...
Harnessing MIT’s collective power
One of the things I’ve come to value deeply about the MIT community is the near-universal willingness to name a...
The Renaissance man from Port Gamble Bay
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe signed a treaty with the US government in 1855 that ceded the vast majority of...
Investing in AI to build next-generation infrastructure
This infrastructure gap – the difference between funding and construction – is vast. And while governments and companies everywhere are...
These companies are creating food out of thin air
Lisa Dyson is the founder of one of these startups, Air Protein. When she talks about the inspiration for her...
The Download: food from thin air, and finding new materials
A new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of capital, are promising something that seems too...
Azalea: a science-fiction story
Janet’s voice crackles in Tascha’s ear as they dangle off their rappelling lines, swinging from point to point in their...
The race to find new materials with AI needs more data. Meta is giving massive amounts away for free.
“We’re really firm believers that by contributing to the community and building upon open-source data models, the whole community moves...