The 2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty report is now available and it shows significant and continuous progress in decreasing (extreme) poverty all around the world. The graphic shows the improvement over the last 40 years and the decrease in poverty is really impressive. The 2023 report points out that in the …
Read More »LLMs hitting 2 trillions parameters
The talk of the town in these last year has been on ChatGPT and because of that GPT-3 and GPT-4 took the center stage. These are Large Language Models -LLMs-, large, actually very large, because they have and are trained on a huge amount of data: GPT-3 has 175 billion …
Read More »Would you hire a Lazy Applicant?
I am too old to think about applying for a job, actually, it is the other way around. I am getting requests to join/be involved with a company every now and then. However, I have a few students that are looking around (as you are expecting them to do) and …
Read More »A school for robots in the Metaverse
Google in cooperation with some 33 research centers has announced the creation of an Open X-Embodiment and RT-X (Robotic Transformer) model that is getting data from 22 different types of robot. The goal? Create a library of actions that can be used to transfer “knowledge” to a new robot, making …
Read More »Is this what the future looks like?
The smartphone has become an integral part of ourselves, a continuous presence in our lives. What will be after the smartphone? This question might seem absurd, give the intimate relation we have grown with it, yet the history of humanity shows that nothing is forever. Humane think they have the …
Read More »Why are we so troubled by an Artificial Intelligence?
I have been involved in the AIXA Forum, as part of a panel on the use of AI by Italian Industry. The panel followed a few presentations and what struck me most was the common theme that powered those presentation: Our human intelligence is better than AI, AI is not …
Read More »A few figures on Digital Transformation – IV
So, as pointed out in the previous posts in this series, many companies have undertaken the (a) digital transformation or at least initiated the shift/adoption of digital resources. How successful have they been in this adoption/shift? Well, according to McKinsey, 70% of large complex transformation endeavor do not reach their …
Read More »A few figures on Digital Transformation – III
Keeping on with statistics on DX, it is important to notice that a digital transformation involves the whole company and is driven top down by the CEOs. 45% of organizations see the direct involvement of the CEO in setting the workplace transformation roadmap and in 63% of companies they are …
Read More »A new kind of authors is rising. Is publishing changed forever?
The availability of tools supporting the writing of articles and books plus the availability of platforms to distribute them has reached a tipping point where more and more people are writing and collectively amateur writers output is exceeding the one of professional writers both in terms of production AND in …
Read More »A few figures on Digital Transformation – II
As I pointed out in the previous post, there is a lot of investment in the Digital Transformation area and more is expected throughout this decade. One area, not unexpected, where investment is going is the IT, Information Technology, in its various forms. Indeed, if we are looking at the …
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