Scaling individual impact: Insights from an AI engineering leader
Doing this well requires building a diverse network across the organization. Building and nurturing relationships in different functional areas is...
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The Download: AI is making robots more helpful, and the problem with cleaning up pollution
November 2023Technically speaking, neuroscientists have been able to read your mind for decades. It’s not easy, mind you. First, you...
The inadvertent geoengineering experiment that the world is now shutting off
Because of the cutoff date, the study did not capture a more recent contributor to these trends. Starting in 2020,...
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Stretch weighs about 50 pounds. It has a small mobile base, a stick with a camera dangling off it, and...
Modernizing data with strategic purpose
This report seeks to understand organizations’ objectives for their data modernization projects and how they are implementing such initiatives. To...
The Download: generating AI memories, and China’s softening tech regulation
As a six-year-old growing up in Barcelona, Spain, during the 1940s, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building...
Why China’s regulators are softening on its tech sector
So I was inspired after talking to Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor in Hong Kong who’s coming to teach...
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
So far Domestic Data Streamers has used the technique to preserve the memories of people in various migrant communities, including...
Open-sourcing generative AI
Explore more from Booz Allen Hamilton on the future of AI About the speakers Alison Smith, Director of Generative AI,...
Taking AI to the next level in manufacturing
Few technological advances have generated as much excitement as AI. In particular, generative AI seems to have taken business discourse...
The Download: how China plans to regulate AI
The way China regulates its tech industry can seem highly unpredictable. The government can celebrate the achievements of Chinese tech...
Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations—for now
Take Alibaba and Tencent as examples. Since the 2000s, the two tech giants have made hundreds of mergers and investments,...
Tackling AI risks: Your reputation is at stake
Risk is all about context Risk is all about context. In fact, one of the biggest risks is failing to...
The Download: chatting with the politician behind the AI Act, and how to watch the eclipse
Dragoș Tudorache is one of the most important players in European AI policy. He is one of the two lead...
A conversation with Dragoș Tudorache, the politician behind the AI Act
A former interior minister, Tudorache is one of the most important players in European AI policy. He is one of...
The Download: our eclipse guide, and what you need to know about bird flu
On April 8, the moon will pass directly between Earth and the sun, creating a total solar eclipse across much...
New bird flu infections: Here’s what you need to know
But the rash of recent infections among livestock is unsettling. Last month, goats in Minnesota tested positive. And avian influenza...
How to safely watch and photograph the total solar eclipse
Before the eclipse begins, take the time to focus the camera exactly where you want the sun and moon to...
The Download: Harvard’s geoengineering failure, and extending nuclear plants’ lifetimes
In March 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid out...
Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer
Two main components determine a plant’s lifetime: the reactor pressure vessel and the containment structure, says Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor...
