This spring I am teaching a new class at MIT called **How to AI (Almost) Anything** Its name is a play on 2 seminal @medialab courses: how to make almost anything (on design & fabrication) and how to grow almost anything (on synthetic biology) We are now in the AI age, and today's AI can be ... See more

Whether or not we come to understand “intelligence” any time soon, we do have a major challenge on our hands in bringing together computers and humans in ways that enhance human life. While this challenge is viewed by some as subservient to the creation of “artificial intelligence,” it can also be viewed more prosaically — but with no less reverenc... See more