OpenAI’s Leadership Crisis: Lessons to be Learnt

  • Post author:

OpenAI has emerged as an important entity in the tech world, gaining immense popularity for its groundbreaking advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The company surfaced to the pinnacle of its popularity following the launch of ChatGPT, an advanced AI tool that impressed users with its human-like writing style. In the form of ChatGPT, OpenAI has made AI tangible, bringing it to everyone’s palm - quite literally.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingOpenAI’s Leadership Crisis: Lessons to be Learnt

Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma

In the book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma, authored by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, the authors argue that humans as a species are approaching a critical threshold in history where everything is about to change.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingMustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma

Mafias in Modern Times

The term ‘Mafia’ traces its roots to Sicily, where it emerged as a covert international organisation. Initially perceived as a group formed to resist oppression, it swiftly morphed into a nefarious criminal organisation. This transformation was notably transported to the United States in the late 19th Century by Italian immigrants. Known by various monikers such as the Syndicate, the Mob, and Cosa Nostra (literally ‘Our Thing’), the Mafia has etched a distinct identity in the criminal underworld.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views .

Continue ReadingMafias in Modern Times

Pakistan’s Digital Readiness in Education

With the global world adapting rapidly to digitalisation, the education sector is also transforming by inculcating various digital practices for making knowledge accessible and consequently bridging the educational access divide between different socioeconomic groups. Governments around the world have created favourable policy environments to facilitate such transformations.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingPakistan’s Digital Readiness in Education

Minsk-Moscow Nuclear Rendezvous

  • Post author:

Moscow and Minsk, a supranational union called the Union State, agreed to station tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) in Belarus on 25 May 2023, a decision in consideration since December 2021. Russia delivered the first batch of weapons in June 2023, with the rest expected to be deployed by year-end. In August 2023, Poland also confirmed the movement of weapons.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingMinsk-Moscow Nuclear Rendezvous

Ethical Challenges in AI & Global Cooperation

Research and Development on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making strides for several years but it has only recently started making headlines on an almost daily basis given its impact on various aspects of day-to-day life. Its integration into the systems and processes of the digital world has brought unprecedented revolutions in almost every field, from science and technology to art and literature.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingEthical Challenges in AI & Global Cooperation

Redesign

At a recent conference, I took the opportunity during my remarks to posit the term ‘redesign’ as a discursive element that should inform our engagement with society. This differs from the standard refrain of ‘reform’ that many economists and policy pundits employ. Reform is a standard-issue term that is useful insofar as it points to reshaping or remedying existing deficiencies, and it is also a term that duly denotes criticism of existing failures. However, there are five shortcomings of reform that are instead better captured by ‘redesign’ and can thus be framed as the ‘advantages of a redesign approach.’
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingRedesign

Starry-Eyed Youth

A recent large-scale space-related tournament known as the NASA 2023 Space Apps Challenge took place amid great fanfare around the world, and what was most exciting about the space-technology competition was the significant contingent of youth teams from Pakistan. Their enthusiasm for participating in the global tournament, and for solving complex spatial challenges set out by NASA, brimmed with promise and gave a unique insight into the vast potential for scientific engagement by Pakistan’s youth.
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS] views

Continue ReadingStarry-Eyed Youth