Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
A.I. Versus the Coronavirus
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions. Advanced computers have defeated chess masters and learned how to pick through mountains of data to recognize faces and voices. Now, a billionaire developer of software and artificial intelligence is teaming up with […]
Review: ‘The Book of Why’ Examines the Science of Cause and Effect
Everyone knows that the cock’s crowing at dawn does not “cause” the sun to rise. Conversely,...
“Doing machine learning the right way”
Professor Aleksander Madry, MIT, strives to build machine-learning models that are more reliable,...
Neural hardware for image recognition in nanoseconds
MIT Techreview briefs about an ultra-fast image sensor with a built-in neural network that has been...
The problem with the EU’s AI strategy
Last week, the European Union issued its long-anticipated white paper on artificial intelligence....
Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Law: Helping Lawyers While Avoiding Biased Algorithms
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help every sector of the economy. There is a...
AI-Driven Solutions to the Coronavirus
To battle the novel coronavirus that’s been linked to Wuhan, China, researchers are using...
An AI regulation strategy that could really work
Professor Professor Gillian Hadfield is director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology...
Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask
Instead of machines pursuing goals of their own, the new thinking goes, they should seek to satisfy...