We need to pause even as Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology seems to be moving on relentlessly. Why is GPT so powerful? And what are its roots? AI first appeared–as new things most often do — in the movies. About a century ago, Fritz Lang’s 1927 dystopic film Metropolis had…

There is so much good that AI is achieving, it can almost blindside us to its evils. While opponents argue that AI can only regurgitate known facts — after all, it looks up some existing database to arrive at its inferences — AI has been instrumental in identifying facts that…

If we look beyond the eye-popping headlines made by ChatGPT, generative AI is still in its infancy. You can see why: Recently, ChatGPT told a user that it takes “9 women 1 month to make 1 baby”. Unfortunately, it got the math all mixed up. This is just one among…

It will come as no surprise if a study on smartphone users reveals that the top five features used in mobiles do not include making calls. It is a guess, but not too far off the mark: The top five features will be texting, taking pictures, online shopping, watching videos…

Investments in environmental, social, and corporate (ESG) governance are going through the roof. Businesses of all sizes everywhere are being evaluated and rated based on their ESG performance by third-party specialists such as MSCI ESG Ratings, Sustainalytics, Bloomberg, S&P Global ESG, Moody’s ESG Solution group, and hundreds of others. These…

Internet privacy is dead. Everyone already knows this, so you are perhaps reading this and saying, “What’s new?” That’s a reasonable response. We need to be concerned about Internet privacy all the time, even more so because it is dead, and its death exposes us to many frauds. …

Networks generate extraordinary outcomes. This is ancient knowledge. Our rulers knew this. Chandragupta Maurya, who established an empire across the Indian subcontinent, for example, built a massive highway along what was then the Uttarapath (Northern path). For approximately 2,300 years, his 2,400 km highway linked what we today recognize as…

The world of technology is buzzing with some new and some not-so-new words: Meta, NFTs, and crypto. Google Trends shows that interest in the three topics peaked last year, dipped a considerable bit in the first three months of 2022, and has now remained steady (see Figure 1). Of course…

It has been a challenging time for global supply chain administrators and their teams of commodity specialists. It began with Brexit in early 2020, was immediately made worse by the unpredictable lockdowns of COVID-19, followed by severe port congestions, and compounded by planet-wide extreme weather events. As if that was…