Tag: MIT
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AI at the Speed of Enterprise R&D: Isomorphic Labs and the Future of Drug Discovery
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: In recent years, enterprise R&D in biotechnology has been fundamentally reshaped by the rise of artificial intelligence. At EmTechMIT, Chief Business & Legal Officer Sarah Korman of Isomorphic Labs (ISO), the Alphabet-backed spinout from Google’s DeepMind, offered a behind-the-scenes look at how AI is accelerating the design and development of novel medicines,…
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The End of Trial-and-Error Science: Gomez-Bombarelli on AI’s Transformative Impact
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: The scientific method, observation, hypothesis, and experiment, has fueled centuries of breakthroughs, but Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli believes it’s time to leave trial-and-error behind. At EmTechMIT, the MIT professor and cofounder of Lila Sciences cast a vision for “scientific super intelligence,” driven by a new fusion of artificial intelligence and experimental science. “Our ambition,”…
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The Power of Choice: Rethinking Agency in the Age of AI
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: At the MIT Media Lab, few voices blend data science, social theory, and design for human agency as fluently as Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. His talk at EmTechMIT, titled “The Power of Choice,” was not about the power of technology itself, but about how to realign it around the individual. Pentland offered…
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The Changing Face of Friendship – The Race to AI Intimacy
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Camille Carlton began with a chilling observation: “Many people find it easy and some satisfying to engage in ongoing relationships with AI. This development has ramifications for our psychological and social health that we’re just beginning to unravel.” Carlton, a policy advocate at the Center for Humane Technology, addressed not only the…
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From AI Assistants to Associates
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Sudheesh Nair, Cofounder & CEO of TinyFish, opened his talk with a bold premise: AI agents are approaching a pivotal transformation, ready to change the very shape of the Internet by evolving from simple assistants to fully capable “associates”, collaborators and actors that handle real-world tasks across domains like hospitality, commerce, and…
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The Agentic Workday: Redefining Work with AI Agents
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: AI is not just an accessory, it is becoming the beating heart of how work happens in the most forward-looking organizations. In “The Agentic Workday,” Colette Stallbaumer, GM of Microsoft Copilot and co-founder of Microsoft’s WorkLab, unpacked how the rise of AI agents is reshaping workflows, expectations, and the very nature of…
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The ABC’s of AI: Algorithms, Borders, Controls
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: The rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the algorithms that define it, the national borders that increasingly limit it, and the controls industries and governments seek to assert, stood front and center during this session. “The ABC’s of AI: Algorithms, Borders, Controls,” led by R. David Edelman of MIT and Fiona Murray…
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Our Biggest Fight, Rebuilding Trust in the Internet
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: Frank McCourt Jr., founder of Project Liberty and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, delivered a deeply personal and impassioned talk about what he calls the broken design of the internet, and how to fix it. His central claim: the web’s evolution from an open, human-centered system into a centralized, extractive…
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Protecting the Open Web Economy
EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: When Matthew Prince, Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudflare, took the EmTechMIT stage in Cambridge, he delivered what felt less like a keynote and more like a wake-up call for the digital economy. His talk, titled Protecting the Open Web Economy, was a sharp analysis of how artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the…
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CRISPR: The Future of Humanity
If you have a baby today, it is highly likely the child will live until they are 125 years old. Many years ago, I used this teaser introduction slide in my presentations to shift the audience’s mindset about what incredible advances are to come overall with technology. Well, the technology is starting to align. In…
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“Decentralized AI” – MIT EmTech Digital Conference
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, decentralization is emerging as a critical paradigm shift, promising to revolutionize how we handle data, privacy, and AI capabilities. At the “Decentralized AI” session, Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor at MIT Media Lab, provided an illuminating and thought-provoking perspective on this topic. Here’s an exploration of the concepts discussed…
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“Humanity is just a passing phase for evolutionary intelligence.”
By Joseph Raczynski At MIT EmTech Conference – Cambridge, MA This is not a joke. Our time is short here on Earth, according to Geoffrey Hinton Emeritus Professor, University of Toronto; Engineering Fellow, Google, “Humanity is just a passing phase for evolutionary intelligence.” In other words, we don’t have much more time. This is a…
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MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain Busts Open New Thinking
By Joseph Raczynski Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab – Cambridge MA – October 2017 – In one of the more unique and unusual conferences I have participated, the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain was a meeting of 200 minds from across academia, law firm, and corporations big and small. It included IBM Watson as…