Curated Commons // Edition 153
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When TikTok learns your SAT score, thanks to adtech
Adtech is so infused in our lives that organizations that should know better, for example academic testing firms, don’t really bother about it! - Read here
Robots, but for sparing humans of high-risk jobs
Good piece highlighting how industrial robots are making advances across functions - Read here ($)
AI, a tool for augmenting, not replacing humans - ILO
More organizations are veering around to the view that AI is not the big job-killer that many made it out to be. ILO has a new report - Read here (PDF)
Disruption? What’s that?
Good read in The Economist on how the big are getting bigger - Read here ($)
“…the rate at which new corporate behemoths arise has been slowing. In 1990 there were 66 firms in the Fortune 500 that were 30 years old or younger. Since then the average age has crept up from 75 to 90.”
Manufacturing in…space
Startups are entering a new space - manufacturing in space. We live in fascinating times! - Read here
The importance of India’s Chandrayaan-3 Success
A couple of good pieces that highlight some key points on why the mission’s success is key for India, and the world - Read WSJ here ; Read FT here
Scientific importance of Moon’s south pole and potential presence of water
Driver of greater space-tech investments in India
Aspirational goal for other emerging economies that low budgets need not mean low aspirations
The haves and have-nots of the AI world
…defined by those who have access to GPU chips and those who don’t. The hunt is real! - Read here ($)
Fungal infections are on the rise
In today’s edition of new medical challenges we need to be aware of thanks, in part, to climate change - fungal infections. Worrying story. - Read here
When cities become a real-world Disneyland
When a city becomes so popular with tourists that its genuine long-term residents cannot afford it anymore, what happens then? Piece looking at Santorini in Greece and Venice in Italy. - Read here ($)
Recording a Pink Floyd song from brain waves
Your thoughts can be converted to text. And that’s great for people with neurological disorders - Read here
Meet the emerging semiconductor giant - Huawei
China’s apparently going all guns in funding Huawei’s expansion into semiconductor fabrication. - Read here ($)
What might hold back companies from leveraging LLMs - copyright concerns
The court cases are only just beginning. This also means more traditional companies will think twice before incorporating Gen AI tools based on some of these LLMs into their workflows - Read here ($)
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