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APRIL 20, 2024

In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. If you were engineering the Bell System,” he says, “you weren’t trying to figure out who in San Francisco is going to say what to whom in New York. But Roberts asked Kahn to stay.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns : MIT's Neil Thompson and several of his collaborators captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning. OpenAI's GPT-3 Speaks!

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MAY 17, 2023

Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. I think the Level-2 and Level-3 stuff in cars is amazingly good now.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation. That really creates an information asymmetry that benefits the utility to the detriment of both the regulatory staff and public interveners and stakeholders. I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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JUNE 4, 2022

The first personal computer developed in the United States is commonly thought to be the MITS Altair, which sold as a hobbyist’s kit in 1976. The 1985 Siggraph art show in San Francisco alone received 4000 entries. At nearly the same time the Apple I became available, also in kit form.

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