Because AI
is only half the answer
60 percent of the content we share on our Monday morning meetings is about AI.
Mickey Mikitani, D^3 Advisory Council Member and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc.
Because AI
is a superpower
Enhancing AI through Self-Verification
In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI), a recent study by Yuda Song, PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University; Hanlin Zhang, PhD student at Harvard; Sham M. Kakade, Co-director of the Kempner Institute at Harvard, and a team of researchers (see the Meet the Authors section for details) explores the concept of AI […]
Mastering Efficiency in AI Training: Insights from Critical Batch Size Research
As businesses increasingly adopt large-scale AI models, optimizing training efficiency is crucial. In “How Does Critical Batch Size Scale in Pre-training?”, Hanlin Zhang and a group of colleagues (see below for author details) explore critical batch size (CBS)—the threshold at which data parallelism, which distributes training data across multiple processors, stops yielding significant returns from […]
Croissant: A Game-Changing Metadata Format for Machine Learning Datasets
Data is a vital input for machine learning (ML), but data management remains a significant challenge. A new metadata format called Croissant, introduced by Mubashara Akhtar, a PhD student at King’s College London, Satyapriya Krishna, a PhD student at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Trustworthy AI Lab at the […]
Advancing Privacy in Dynamic Data: Concurrent Composition in Continual Mechanisms
In an era where data is constantly evolving and privacy concerns are paramount, the work of Monika Henzinger, a Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria; Roodabeh Safavi, a PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria; and Salil Vadhan, the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied […]
Growth and Profitability Patterns in Climate Solution Companies
The business world is increasingly aware of the risks and opportunities climate change presents. Companies are developing and commercializing new products and services that contribute to a low-carbon economy, or “climate solutions” (CS). In the recent HBS working paper, “The Financial Anatomy of Climate Solutions: A Large Language Model Approach to Company Classification and Analysis,” […]
Because AI
transforms productivity
Organizations have four questions to answer: What useful thing you do is no longer valuable? What impossible thing can you do now? What can you move downmarket or democratize? What can you move upmarket and personalize?
Ethan Mollick, Leading with AI Conference Featured Speaker and Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Music in the Digital Age: Empowering Creators
A recent post, “Shaping the Future of Music in the Creator Economy,” from D^3 blackbox Lab, described how the music industry is undergoing a transformation driven by digital tools and shifting business models. The blog outlined a panel discussion hosted by James Riley, Principal Investigator of the lab and Assistant Professor at HBS, that featured […]
The Creative Edge: How Human-AI Collaboration is Reshaping Problem-Solving
As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities rapidly advance, organizations are exploring new ways to leverage these technologies for creative problem-solving and innovation. A recent HBS working paper, “The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving”, – by Léonard Boussioux, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington; Jacqueline N. Lane, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School […]
Because AI
changes everything
Harvard University Generative AI Symposium
Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) is partnering with the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University Information Technology and the Harvard Library to offer […] Continue reading Harvard University Generative AI Symposium
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Our work at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard focuses our 14 labs around six communities of practice to produce and share research-rooted knowledge on how society and business are interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies.