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Tuesday, 23 February 2021 05:43
Why Our Knowledge Economy Can Survive the New Age of Pestilence
Today’s engine of economic growth may lessen the long-term economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. History, it has been observed by an unknown wag, is a sequence of disasters, and the stuff in between is boring. While each catastrophic event…
Sunday, 20 September 2020 07:28
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
GPT-3 We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace For more about GPT-3 and how this essay was written and edited, please read…
Thursday, 03 September 2020 08:44
Publishers and the pandemic
Part 1: How has COVID-19 impacted publisher traffic worldwide?
Sunday, 16 August 2020 09:39
Smarter devices, better patient care
By: MIT Technology Review Insightsarchive page We are at the very beginning of a medical revolution, fueled by our ability to analyze hitherto unheard-of amounts of data using artificial intelligence (AI). AI is enabling the development of smart medical devices…
Monday, 20 July 2020 09:29
A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackers
The context: One of the greatest unsolved flaws of deep learning is its vulnerability to so-called adversarial attacks. When added to the input of an AI system, these perturbations, seemingly random or undetectable to the human eye, can make things…
Thursday, 16 July 2020 08:49
Saudi Arabia 2030: How to Achieve a Dynamic & Thriving 21st Century Economy
By: Gary Whitehill Economic & Geopolitical Strategist As the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) hits full speed across Saudi Arabia it is important for both public and private sector leaders to understand the correct 21st Century paradigms, platforms and partnerships necessary…
Tuesday, 30 June 2020 07:51
KEY FINDINGS FROM THE REUTERS DIGITAL NEWS REPORT 2020
Impact of Covid-19 crisis on news: serious economic threats but also opportunities to reinvent relationship with audience The latest edition of the Reuters Digital News Report, which was published on 16 June 2020, is based on surveys completed in January…
Thursday, 04 June 2020 07:55
Six Months of Coronavirus: Here’s Some of What We’ve Learned
Credit: Jens Mortensen for The New York Timesو June 2, 2020 Much remains unknown and mysterious, but these are some of the things we’re pretty sure of after half a year of this pandemic. By The New York Times We…
Monday, 18 May 2020 11:35
Vaccine opponents are gaining in Facebook ‘battle for hearts and minds,’ new map shows
By Meredith Wadman May. 13, 2020 A first-of-its-kind analysis of more than 1300 Facebook pages with nearly 100 million followers has produced a network map that’s alarming public health professionals. Antivaccine pages have fewer followers than pro-vaccine pages but are…
Thursday, 14 May 2020 09:37
Artificial intelligence systems aim to sniff out signs of COVID-19 outbreaks
By Adrian ChoMay The international alarm about the COVID-19 pandemic was sounded first not by a human, but by a computer. HealthMap, a website run by Boston Children’s Hospital, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scan social media, news reports, internet…