Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

Today’s most powerful AI tools – those that can summarize documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly complex proteins fold – all rest on the shoulders of the “transformer”. This neural network architecture, first announced in 2017 at a modest conference center in California, allows machines to process information in a way that…

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Building Trust in Agentic AI

From principles to practice As artificial intelligence systems become more agentic and capable of multi-step reasoning and autonomous action, the issue of trust moves from theory to practice. These challenges are the focus of the Trust in AI Alliance, a new forum hosted by Thomson Reuters Labs that brings together leading AI researchers and engineers…

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DeVry Embeds AI Literacy in All Courses

As artificial intelligence continues to redefine the way we learn and work, DeVry University will integrate AI introduction and skills building into every course by the end of the year. The effort expands on the automation and machine learning program DeVry launched in 2020, adding new AI-focused courses and credentials and integrating AI learning assistants…

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What can we expect from Artificial Intelligence?

By Thomas B. Fowler (bio – articles – email) | January 21, 2026 Introductory note from Jeff Mirus: In 2024, Thomas Fowler wrote a series of four articles on artificial intelligence for CatholicCulture.org: At the end of 2025, Tom published a major book on this subject: Artificial intelligence: foundations, limits, advantages and dangers….

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Heterogeneous computing and the future of AI

Heterogeneous computing is quietly redefining how AI appears in everyday devices, bringing intelligence closer to where people actually use it rather than keeping it locked in remote cloud systems. As AI expands into physical products, success depends less on raw performance and more on how efficiently CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs work together. Heterogeneous computing manifests…

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Using AI Personas To Craft Synthetic Mental Health Therapists Of All Types And Gauge The Future Of Psychotherapy

Devising AI personas that are therapists of all types is handy for many reasons. getty In today’s column, I examine in-depth the use of AI personas to craft synthetic mental health therapists. This is readily undertaken via modern-era generative AI and large language models (LLMs). With a few detailed instructions in a prompt, you can…

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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence: Understanding the Mechanism Behind the Magic

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly touching nearly every aspect of our modern life, from simple predictive models for text completion when composing messages and emails to highly sophisticated content creation, such as prompt-based realistic video generation. Yet despite AI’s widespread prevalence, there remains unawareness or misunderstanding about what AI truly is and how it operates….

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“The sheer velocity of AI-driven threats makes human-in-the-loop a bottleneck rather

“Cybersecurity will be the first vertical to completely move from co-pilots to autonomous agents. The sheer speed of AI-based threats makes workflows involving humans a bottleneck rather than a protection,” said Yoni Osherov, general partner at Ouverture Capital, when asked which specific industry would be the first to fully trust AI with independent decision-making. “We…

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