Curated Commons // Edition 145
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Apple wants to own apple
Apple and its lawyers want to trademark apple, the fruit,đand are now flexing their legal muscles. - Read here
If you canât beat âem, gen AI âem
Celebs are co-opting into Gen AI. Why? Coz they might be losing money to AI-generated avatars of themselves - Read here ($)
Every successful AI system has tons ofâŚhumans behind it
AI might eliminate a ton of jobs. But for now, it still needs lots of humans who are doing the unglamorous parts of data labelling. Good piece - Read here ($)
Not all retail in the US is struggling. Vape shops for one.
Apparently a side-effect of the pandemic, where commercial landlords are now much more OK to rent to vape shops - Read here ($)
Rationalizing, thy name by US quality of life metrics
Some pretty stunning stats on road safety in the US, and the argument that some take to âjustifyâ it! Sigh. - Read here ($)
Meet a new job category - the Robotaxi driver
Jobs for training machines is a new category that we need to start actively tracking. - Read here
YouTube, as the new global college
Some Nigerian students are apparently now relying on Indian YouTubers for academic support. Fascinating to see the rise of new âcreatorâ and âconsumerâ categories - Read here
Maths is hard
The Internet was built for sharing such lovely posts! - Read here
The rise of Indian migrants
The Economist has a good piece on the rise of Indiaâs global diaspora, now at heads of top companies and countries. - Read here ($)
In 2022 of Americaâs h-1b visas, for skilled workers in âspeciality occupationsâ, such as computer scientists, 73% were won by people born in India.
Another study looked at the top 20% of researchers in artificial intelligence (defined as those who had papers accepted for a competitive conference in 2019). It found that 8% did their undergraduate degree in India.
In America almost 80% of the Indian-born population over school age have at least an undergraduate degree, according to number-crunching by Jeanne Batalova at the mpi. Just 50% of the Chinese-born population and 30% of the total population can say the same.
Indeed Indian migrants are relatively wealthy even in the countries they have moved to. They are the highest-earning migrant group in America, with a median household income of almost $150,000 per year. That is double the national average and well ahead of Chinese migrants, with a median household income of over $95,000. In Australia the median household income among Indian migrants is close to $85,000 per year, compared with an average of roughly $60,000 across all households and $56,500 among the Chinese-born.
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