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E. Glen Weyl, Shrey Jain, Karen Easterbrook, Jason Entenmann We are excited to introduce the Plural Technology Collaboratory (PTC), a cross-company and multi-partner collaboration with a home base within Microsoft Research (MSR) Special Projects. Collectively, we are exploring how to…
E. Glen Weyl, Kasia Sitkiewicz, Petar Maymounkov Open-source software, as exemplified by the communities that have formed around the “git” protocol for collaborative software development and version management, is one of the great wonders of digital technology. Communal open-source projects…
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Shrey Jain, Karen Easterbrook and E. Glen Weyl Generative foundation models (opens in new tab) (GFMs) like GPT-4 will transform human productivity. Yet the astonishing capabilities of these models will also strain many social institutions, including the ways we communicate…