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IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconCash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hun
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconNew Platform Peers Inside AI’s Black Box Prompt Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or any other popular large language model with a question like “What is the best film ever made?” and the response will vary. And you (and most worryingly, the people who built the LLM) ha
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Companion Robots Are Closing the Human Connection in Modern Homes This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke t
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSelf-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The idea of letting a machine do the driving for you may put a lot of people off autonomous vehicles . But research could m
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhat It Takes to Be an Adaptable Engineer The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place. This makes it difficul
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconThis IEEE Senior Member Develops AI Tools for E-Commerce Sites Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch s
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconStop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI About this Webinar Turn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause Analysis When a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical clues are spread across metrology data, tool trace
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconFrom AI Copilots to Agent Swarms The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps in the software develo
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet Representing a significant milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research, a team at Axiom Math has automatically verified the proof of a theorem relating to prime numbers—colloquially referred to as the “246 theorem”—fo
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconThe CPU Comeback Is Upon Us Earlier this year, leaders at Amazon Web Services delivered a new mandate to their engineers: They need to conserve CPU cycles at all costs. AWS has reportedly experienced an explosion in wait times for CPU server capaci
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconInside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconPakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT Judges around the world have made headlines for illicitly using generative AI in their work. But in Pakistan, a large-scale trial of a specially designed AI tool for judges found the technology—together with appropriate
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that hosts and supports popular AI developer resources led Hugging Face’
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconIEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity us
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconShould Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People? This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different f
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhy R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 2
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconFridays With Bob When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions. I didn’t find one rig
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAre AI Models Working Harder Than They Need to? Much of modern AI runs on multiplication. Neural networks behind everything from generated answers to photo organization and song recommendations perform millions or billions of operations that multiply inputs by learned
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSiobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for t
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being inte
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhy AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures. What Attendees will Learn Why mode-agile threats render s
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconOptical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconNASA Puts Google’s Gemma Large Language Model in Orbit The viability of orbital data centers hosting the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs) remains hotly contested. But enormous deployments that require thousands of GPUs aren’t the only way LLMs might prov
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