Within nations, too, lack of empathy explains a large proportion of errors, in particular failure to understand the resentments that powerless people feel towards the rational plans of the powerful, whether they are slum clearances and vasectomies in India or poll taxes in Britain. - Geoff Mulgan’s book The Art of Public Strategy
Society: EU vs US economic growth. Decoding barks. Magnificient Seven (companies)? Issues with WIP - work in progress. GenAI changing business and society (PDF). Moviegoing.
Tech: WEF top 10 emerging techs in 2024. Noon sundials. Cloudflare vs scrapers. Russia found ATACMS.
Planet: Houston, hurricanes, and climate change. Can refrigeration moving from -18 to -15°C cut down some CO2 emissions?
AI: and filmmaking. Invisible thresholds. Wonky consultants. Detecting hallucinations. Turning the table on AI - to think more. Responsible implementation. US intelligence and genAI.
Ai at work 2024: Friend and Foe (PDF).
Developing 2 use cases out of 90 in the banking sector, a story (and in a different ,news, 100 use cases ;)).
“Companies were laying off copywriters and editors, shifting to AI-generated content production. However, they’re now hiring human writers again to make the articles “sound human.” Generative AI technologies have led to a 21% decrease in job posts for writing and coding and a 17% decrease for image creation on a global freelancing platform, increasing competition among freelancers and resulting in higher pay for the remaining complex jobs.”
