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2021's Top Stories About AI

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But we all know that deep learning can do wondrous things and that it's being rapidly incorporated into many industries; that's yesterday's news. Which is not to say that IEEE Spectrum didn't cover AI—we covered the heck out of it. Several came from Spectrum 's October 2021 special issue on AI, The Great AI Reckoning.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Bush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer's role in the industrial research and development enterprise. In our modern tempo that industry is in danger which is in a static state.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He says that the unsustainable cost of building spaceships is what prevents long-term space travel. Constructing such facilities in underdeveloped countries would lower the cost of industrialization while speeding up processes. The TOGG is working on designing electric vehicles.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. So it's nearly impossible to get the cost of manufacturing and sales down to a competitive level.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Foundation for Skydio’s drones can be traced back to Adam’s work on autonomous agile drones at MIT , and after spending a few years at Google working on Project Wing’s delivery drones , Adam cofounded Skydio in 2014. In the industrial world, it’s entirely different. It’s around €3,000. So that’s a very good news.

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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When Google subsidiary DeepMind trained its system to play Go, it was estimated to have cost $35 million. When DeepMind's researchers designed a system to play the StarCraft II video game , they purposefully didn't try multiple ways of architecting an important component, because the training cost would have been too high.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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I’m using a word processor with the core features and functions of Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice’s Writer, along with an email client that could be mistaken for a simplified version of Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird. But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view.

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