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The Quiet Revolution

Carlo Iacono, Jun 06, 2025

This post is centred on to main examples: one, a Morgan Stanley AI that "processed nine million lines of code and saved 280,000 hours of human work," and the other, an Imperial College London research AI that performed 10 years work in 48 hours on "how certain bacteria become resistant to antibiotics." Writes Calo Iacono, "This isn't about AI being smarter than humans. It's about AI being different in useful ways." But also, "these developments challenge us to think differently about our own roles."

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