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The Culture of the BGF–AIWS Family

The Culture of the BGF–AIWS Family

By Governor Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan Boston, August 18, 2025 Dear BGF–AIWS Family Members, We live in a time of profound change. Technology—especially artificial intelligence—is reshaping our world, creating both extraordinary opportunities and urgent...

Deep learning is about to get easier — and more widespread

Deep learning is about to get easier — and more widespread

Deep learning algorithms often require millions of training examples to perform their tasks accurately. But many companies and organizations don’t have access to such large caches of annotated data to train their models (getting millions of pictures of cats is hard...

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

Facebook is Making Progress on Its Mind Reading Headset

"In 2017, Facebook announced that it was working on a brain-computer interface that designed to let users type by simply thinking words. And today, the company revealed for the first time how far it’s come in its quest to make such a device a reality. Facebook’s...

Using Social Physics to build the Social Contract 2020

Using Social Physics to build the Social Contract 2020

Social Physics is a new way of understanding human behavior based on analysis of Big Data. In contemporary society we have access to an incredible array of data on social interaction. This abundance of data provides a social science nirvana which allows us to begin to...