The Obtain: How AI can enhance a metropolis, and inside OpenAI’s empire

In latest many years, cities have turn into more and more adept at amassing all kinds of knowledge. However that information can have restricted influence when authorities officers are unable to speak, not to mention analyze or put to make use of, all the knowledge they’ve entry to.

This dynamic has all the time bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of city planning and expertise at MIT. Shortly after becoming a member of MIT in 2012, Williams created the Civic Information Design Lab to bridge that divide. Through the years, she and her colleagues have made city planning information extra vivid and accessible via human tales and hanging graphics. Learn the total story.

—Ben Schneider

This story is from the subsequent print version of MIT Expertise Overview, which explores energy—who has it, and who desires it. It’s set to go dwell on Wednesday June 25, so subscribe & save 25% to learn it and get a replica of the problem when it lands!

Inside OpenAI’s empire with Karen Hao

AI journalist Karen Hao’s newly launched ebook, Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, tells the story of OpenAI’s rise to energy and its far-reaching influence all around the world.

Hao, a former MIT Expertise Overview senior editor, will be a part of our govt editor Niall Firth in an intimate subscriber-exclusive Roundtable dialog exploring the AI arms race, what it means for all of us, and the place it’s headed. Register right here to affix us at 9am ET on Monday June thirtieth June.

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