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Nov 28, 2024 | 
militarynews.com | Julian Jacobs
On Saturday morning, nestled between the USS Intrepid, New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, and the cruise terminal, the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, was brought to life. Commissioning ceremonies, as described by Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, are a time-honored tradition dating back to 1775. Now, 249 years later, the USS John Basilone became the 74th ship of her class and the second ship to bear the namesake of John Basilone.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
dvidshub.net | Julian Jacobs
18 On Saturday morning, nestled between the USS Intrepid, New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, and the cruise terminal, the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, was brought to life. Commissioning ceremonies, as described by Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, are a time-honored tradition dating back to 1775. Now, 249 years later, the USS John Basilone became the 74th ship of her class and the second ship to bear the namesake of John Basilone.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Mark Muro |Julian Jacobs
Last fall, we argued that the AI sector—especially large language model (LLM) activity—is being driven by concentrated research, modeling, and design work occurring in just a handful of “superstar” tech centers along the coasts: the Bay Area, Seattle, New York, and Boston. In that piece, we suggested that such concentration is a negative force in shaping AI development and, more broadly, U.S. economic growth.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
omfif.org | Julian Jacobs |Francesco Tasin
The benefits and risks of artificial intelligence are not equally shared
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
itif.org | Julian Jacobs
Workers in many industries have begun using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT since its launch in 2022, enabling researchers to study the effects of AI on labor productivity. The results provide empirical evidence of the productivity-boosting effects of AI for many professional tasks including writing, coding, administrative tasks, text summarization, and research. Some studies have looked at the impact of LLMs on writing productivity.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
datainnovation.org | Julian Jacobs
Artificial intelligence (AI) will likely have an impact on virtually every sector of the economy, but one of its greatest benefits will come from deploying it in healthcare. While some researchers have anticipated these benefits for years, there is an emerging body of scientific evidence that these capabilities may soon be ready to move from theory to practice.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
itif.org | Julian Jacobs
Artificial intelligence (AI) will likely have an impact on virtually every sector of the economy, but one of its greatest benefits will come from deploying it in health care. While some researchers have anticipated these benefits for years, there is an emerging body of scientific evidence that these capabilities may soon be ready to move from theory to practice. Given this progress, policymakers should be looking closely at how to integrate AI into the health-care system safely and effectively.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Mark Muro |Julian Jacobs |Sifan Liu
Dramatic advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have touched off intense debates about who will “win” the rush to deploy these technologies. Much has been written about AI’s potential to displace millions of workers, but leaders across the country also see the emerging technology as an opportunity to boost the productivity and dynamism of their regional economies.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
progressivehub.net | Julian Jacobs
Economic data doesn’t suggest that the US economy is in a recession, but Americans’ on-the-ground experiences tell a different story. Extreme income inequality can explain the discrepancy between the economic data and the real-world belt tightening. by Julian Jacobs, JacobinIn 2022, Marla, a thirty-two-year-old retail store manager in Chicago, began to feel the first signs of an economy under strain. As COVID stimulus benefits dried up and prices surged, her wages became harder to live on.
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Julian Jacobs
Looking more closely at both data and economic history tells us a very different story than what corporate economists and bankers would have us believe. Indeed, the dissonance between widely reported macroeconomic figures and the experience of working-class Americans can be explained by three factors: first, anti-worker policies and events; second, the role of inequality in making the bottom brackets more susceptible to income shocks; and third, the use of cheap credit to supplement for income.
