Category: History of science

The power of App Inventor: Democratizing possibilities for mobile applications

May 16, 2024

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In June 2007, Apple unveiled the first iPhone. But the company made a strategic decision about iPhone software: its new App Store would be a walled garden. An iPhone user wouldn’t be able to install applications that Apple itself hadn’t vetted, at least not without breaking Apple’s terms of service. That business decision, however, left…
President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discuss the future of AI

May 6, 2024

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in Artificial Intelligence, Business and management, Careers, Community, Ethics, History of science, Human-computer interaction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Invention, Labor and jobs, Machine Learning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT Sloan School of Management, President Sally Kornbluth, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Engineering, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, School of Science, Special events and guest speakers, Sustainability, Technology and society

How is the field of artificial intelligence evolving and what does it mean for the future of work, education, and humanity? MIT President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman covered all that and more in a wide-ranging discussion on MIT’s campus May 2. The success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT large language models has helped spur…
Exploring the history of data-driven arguments in public life

Apr 28, 2024

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in economics, Faculty, History of science, Profile, Program in STS, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences

Political debates today may not always be exceptionally rational, but they are often infused with numbers. If people are discussing the economy or health care or climate change, sooner or later they will invoke statistics. It was not always thus. Our habit of using numbers to make political arguments has a history, and William Deringer…

Category: History of science

The power of App Inventor: Democratizing possibilities for mobile applications

President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discuss the future of AI

Exploring the history of data-driven arguments in public life