Nobody Knows Exactly What AI Will Mean for Jobs, but Executive Consensus Shifts Toward Cuts
Amid the Poor Visibility, We Should Plan for a Rainy Day
Topic
Private Markets
A collection of 33 issues
Addicted to the Digital Debris: What Day Traders and Stock-Market Analysts Have in Common
It's Harder than Ever to Step Outside the Flow and Make Sense of It
Connecting the Dots — at Supermarkets and Beyond
Weight-Loss Drugs, Junk Food, and the Acuity of Hindsight
Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development
And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
Q-Day: Quantum Isn’t the Real Problem
Don't Blame the Technology for Its Misuse
A Quick Note From the Viewing Platform
What's that smell?
When it Comes to AI, Clear-Eyed Pragmatism Beats Slaphappy Optimism
After my return from vacation, I had a lot on my plate these last few days. The preceding sentence is my way of apologizing for not providing a post earlier this week.
Still, I’ll attempt to make amends, offering this post today and another tomorrow (on Nvidia GTC . . . for
Annihilation or Utopia? AI Likely to Land Somewhere Between the Two Extremes
A couple recent articles got my attention, and I thought I’d offer thoughts with which you might enthusiastically agree or vehemently disagree. Either reaction is acceptable. The only unacceptable reaction would be apathy and indifference. We’re here to think critically, not to sleepwalk.
The topic of AI is
Forget the Asteroid in 2032 — Worry About the Here and Now
I am not among the people concerned about an asteroid, charmingly named 2024 YR4, that is reportedly hurtling through space on a collision course for Earth. Astronomers and physicists estimate that the space rock, which measures from 130 to 300 feet (a wide variance), has about a 1.5% probability
A Case For a Bursting AI Bubble
Let’s be honest. We all have our enthusiasms, and some of them, by their very nature, are partly or wholly irrational.
Nobody can be objectively rational and logically detached all the time. Some of us can’t manage it only some of the time. Humans aren’t wired that