When she was a toddler, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outdoors Birmingham. The sensible and cultural variations between farm and metropolis life turned extra pronounced by comparability. “Life and the best way we lived it slowed down on the farm,” she says. “It was a pleasant…
Innovator, futurist, and writer Ray Kurzweil ’70 emphasised his optimism about synthetic intelligence, and technological progress typically, in a lecture on Wednesday whereas accepting MIT’s Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). Kurzweil provided his signature high-profile forecasts about how AI and computing will solely mix with human…