If you want to make the most of The Field We Now Call AI, look to trading. Specifically, the tech-driven sort. People who’ve read my other work, or who have had the misfortune of speaking with me one-on-one, have already heard this line. My long-running half-joke is that my AI consulting is based on best…
Since ChatGPT appeared on the scene, we’ve known that big changes were coming to computing. But it’s taken a few years for us to understand what they were. Now, we’re starting to understand what the future will look like. It’s still hazy, but we’re starting to see some shapes—and the shapes don’t look like “we won’t…
Last month, I spoke with Matthew Prince, cofounder and CEO of Cloudflare, as part of my ongoing series of public conversations, Live with Tim O’Reilly. Cloudflare made waves with its July 1 announcement that it will block AI crawlers by default and give content owners the ability to decide who can use their material for…
The following is Part 1 of 3 from Addy Osmani’s original post “Context Engineering: Bringing Engineering Discipline to Parts.” Context Engineering Tips: To get the best results from an AI, you need to provide clear and specific context. The quality of the AI’s output directly depends on the quality of your input. How to improve…
June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It was like a robot.” June, who asked that we use only her first name for privacy reasons,…
Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies. After training a machine-learning model to analyze thousands of existing delivery particles, the researchers used it to predict new materials that would work even better. The model…
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the research team designed more than 36 million possible compounds and computationally screened them for antimicrobial properties. The top candidates they discovered are structurally distinct from any…
Is this movie review a rave or a pan? Is this news story about business or technology? Is this online chatbot conversation veering off into giving financial advice? Is this online medical information site giving out misinformation? These kinds of automated conversations, whether they involve seeking a movie or restaurant review or getting information about…
“Manufacturing is the engine of society, and it is the backbone of robust, resilient economies,” says John Hart, head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) and faculty co-director of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). “With manufacturing a lively topic in today’s news, there’s a renewed appreciation and understanding of the importance of…
Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can today’s AI revolution produce models that rival or surpass human intelligence across all domains? If so, what underlying enablers—whether…