Simon Johnson, a Nobel-winning economist at MIT, says AI innovations can produce productivity gains, but not everyone will benefit from those gains. A new MIT center, launched this month, aims to dig ...

Scientists have long considered the complexity of language to be an obvious separation between humans and all other life forms on Earth. New research, however, suggests our linguistic abilities might ...

Artificial intelligence clearly is here in our jobs now. It could change things a lot, just like the steam engine did long ago. We are in a new time for computers and information. Big language models ...

AI is often portrayed as a catalyst for productivity. And yes, it’s great for that, but I believe the real frontier is AI as ...

The timeline for an AI productivity boom will be “inherently slow” and “fraught with risk,” according to the country’s most powerful economic institution. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes ...

AI is finally delivering the productivity gains long promised. But something else is quietly slipping away: our connection to one another. While many conversations about AI fixate on job loss, new ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words ...

Distributing tasks across multi-agent systems requires a modular approach in which development, testing and troubleshooting are streamlined, reducing disruption. As excited as organizations are about ...