The agentic AI landscape is exploding. Every new framework, demo, and announcement promises to let your AI assistant book flights, query databases, and manage calendars. This rapid advancement of capabilities is thrilling for users, but for the architects and engineers building these systems, it poses a fundamental question: When should a new capability be a…
A common misconception about O’Reilly is that we cater only to the deeply technical learner. While we’re proud of our deep roots in the tech community, the breadth of our offerings, both in books and on our learning platform, has always aimed to reach a broader audience of tech-adjacent and tech-curious people who want to…
Innovator, futurist, and author Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasized his optimism about artificial intelligence, and technological progress generally, in a lecture on Wednesday while accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). Kurzweil offered his signature high-profile forecasts about how AI and computing will entirely blend with human…
This article originally appeared on Medium. Tim O’Brien has given us permission to repost here on Radar. When you’re working with AI tools like Cursor or GitHub Copilot, the real power isn’t just having access to different models—it’s knowing when to use them. Some jobs are OK with Auto. Others need a stronger model. And…
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) recently celebrated the launch of the MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program, a new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges. Under the five-year agreement, faculty, students, and research…
Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence systems seem to have you covered. The source of…
Teaching developers to work effectively with AI means building habits that keep critical thinking active while leveraging AI’s speed. But teaching these habits isn’t straightforward. Instructors and team leads often find themselves needing to guide developers through challenges in ways that build confidence rather than short-circuit their growth. (See “The Cognitive Shortcut Paradox.”) There are…
For Priya Donti, childhood trips to India were more than an opportunity to visit extended family. The biennial journeys activated in her a motivation that continues to shape her research and her teaching. Contrasting her family home in Massachusetts, Donti — now the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and…
Kids have always played with and talked to stuffed animals. But now their toys can talk back, thanks to a wave of companies that are fitting children’s playthings with chatbots and voice assistants. It’s a trend that has particularly taken off in China: A recent report by the Shenzhen Toy Industry Association and JD.com predicts…