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Trusting AI in International Trade — the Road to Failure, or the Future?
Lord Waverley dons his techie hat and has a closer look at the potential applications of artificial intelligence… Generative AI is vital to national interest, regional prosperity, and tackling shared global challenges. It can help to grow economies, quickly and
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AI Set to Drive Nail in Coffin of Long Stagnation
From Excited to Ecstatic: Expectations of AI Drive Perception Recognised as one of the world’s most prestigious management consulting firms, though no stranger to controversy, McKinsey & Company is quite sanguine about the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) to the
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Data-Sharing: Privacy Agreement to Limit Prying by US Intelligence
Europeans can now complain if they think intelligence services gathered their data — and it’s business as usual for tech firms. The EU Commission and the US are creating a data privacy framework to ease concerns over the sharing of
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Video Gaming Firm Forced to Cut Staff — Despite Cult-like Following for a Franchise that Just Won’t Die
Q: How do get 1,000 Pikachu on an aeroplane? A: You Pokémon. Hal Williams reports on the enduring — or is it? — appeal of a video gaming phenomenon… Pokémon Go has been a mysterious and enduring phenomenon since its
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Technology, Turtles, Subway Systems and Flying Men — Delivery is Moving on Apace
Pie-from-the-sky is the festival food delivery dream for 2023 by HAL WILLIAMS New technology always takes a bit of bedding-in before it’s accepted, adopted, and widely used. ‘Twas ever thus; back in 1964, when the facsimile machine was born, it
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AI: Lies, Surprises, and a Risk of our Own Extinction — With Some Interesting Attributes
The bots are here: ‘It’s as if aliens had landed, and nobody noticed because they are fluent in English…’ ChatGPT suffers from hallucinations, with hints of sociopathy. If stumped, the much-hyped chatbot will brazenly resort to lying and spit out
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Global Warning: Asia is Critical to Addressing Climate Change
Asia emits about half of the world’s global greenhouse gas emissions and that figure is set to increase if the right policies are not put in place. Asia’s future will be heavily shaped by climate change. The region has special vulnerabilities,
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Championing CBDCs — Who’s Who in the Race?
Central banks front and centre, of course — but little is straightforward in the biggest currency jump we’ve faced since shells went out of fashion… The emergence of Bitcoin over a decade ago was a revelation. Even with the turbulent
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Asian Development Bank: Decarbonisation ‘Won’t Work Unless it’s Equitable’
The transition to global net zero to address climate change must be both ambitious and fair. Otherwise, it will fail to achieve its goals — and lack the vital public support required over the long-term. Although ambitious decarbonisation will provide
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A Sci-fi Author’s View on the Rise (and Control) of Human Population
There are eight billion people on Earth, and that could rise to 10 billion by the end of the century. What then? wonders TONY LENNOX… American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov predicted that by the 23rd Century, every last bit of
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