Metaverse A metaverse reality check | Econsultancy 6 Aug 202211 Aug 2022 So, is the metaverse here yet or not? And what is the metaverse, anyway? Most of us have at least a vague sense of “the metaverse” being some kind of…
Economics… The multitude of Metaverse reasons Facebook and Instagram execs are relocating to the UK – Insider Intelligence Trends, Forecasts & Statistics 4 Aug 202211 Aug 2022 Instagram head Adam Mosseri and the president of global affairs for Facebook's parent company, Nick Clegg, are relocating to London. Remote work and the metaverse: CEO Mark Zuckerberg advocated for…
Digital transformation… TikTok’s Factory Line of Terrors 2 Aug 2022 A factory line of terrors: TikTok's African content moderators complain they were treated like robots, reviewing videos of suicide and animal cruelty for less than $3 an hour. It…
Artificial Intelligence LaMDA and the Sentient AI Trap | WIRED 16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 GOOGLE AI RESEARCHER Blake Lemoine was recently placed on administrative leave after going public with claims that LaMDA, a large language model designed to converse with people, was sentient. At…
Artificial Intelligence Artificial neural networks are making strides towards consciousness, according to Blaise Agüera y Arcas | The Economist 10 Jun 202216 Jun 2022 Consider the unedited transcript of a chat I’ve just had with Google’s lamda (Language Model for Dialog Applications): ME: Ramesh, Mateo, and Lucy are in their kindergarten’s playground. Lucy picks a…
e-commerce Meta’s Adding More Ad Targeting Information to its Ad Library Listings | Social Media Today 8 Jun 2022 In the wake of the Cambridge Analytics scandal, Meta has implemented a range of data protection measures to ensure that it limits access to users’ personal data and insight, while…
Artificial Intelligence… Should Organizations Link Responsible AI and Corporate Social Responsibility? It’s Complicated. 28 May 202216 Jun 2022 MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) have assembled an international panel of AI experts that includes academics and practitioners to help us gain insights into how responsible…
Digital transformation… NFTs evading the censors: Shanghai Covid Memories | The Economist 26 Apr 202226 Apr 2022 Evading the censors in Shanghai China’s draconian restrictions in response to covid-19 outbreaks are not lockdowns so much as house-arrests on an enormous scale. With more than 10m people in Shanghai locked in…
e-commerce… Chinese NFT platforms don’t want you to trade NFTs anymore | MIT Technology Review 26 Apr 2022 Chinese NFT platforms don’t want you to trade NFTs anymoreDo NFTs still have value if they can’t be resold? The Chinese NFT industry is about to find out. By Zeyi…
Economics… We ignore calls to address inequality and improve productivity at our peril | Wonkhe 25 Apr 2022 This brings us to the central theme of the report. First that by disaggregating human capital in the growth accounting model, you can see clearer links between the increasing numbers…