ChatGPT a major threat to Google
People are already finding practical uses for ChatGPT, but its biggest utility could be a financial disaster for Google – because itsupplies far superior answers Google has a major worry coming up, as OpenAI’s ChatGPT has fired the imagination of not just the tech world but also of average user. ChatGPT, which is latest in […]
Presenteeism doesn’t equate productivity
Enterprises must clearly communicate their business priorities and employee responsibilities to avoid productivity paranoia The coming year will continue to see work and workplace issues dominate the corporate landscape. As perresearch findings byanalyst and consultancyfirm Omida, nearly 37% of the workforce prefers hybrid work, one-third of the employees will be tethered workforce preferring to work […]
Quantum Trends: 2023 and beyond
Part 1: Near-term trends We look ahead to survey the key trends that will be dominating quantum computing research in the new year and beyond.Part 1 focuses on the near-term trends For the past couple of years, big names in the tech industry are in hot pursuit of quantum computing. Names like Airbus, Daimler, Google, […]
Corporate resilience will face tough test
Organisations must create risk mitigation strategies for the coming year, but at the same time be prepared for surprises that will need extreme agility to navigate The last two years have proved how resilient organisations have been. Most companies responded with great agility to a WFH (work-from-home) mode. Per a McKinsey survey, it took an […]
DroughtCast uses ML to ensure food security
Simulated meteorology and satellite dataprovide inputs for a recurrent neural network to accurately forecast up to twelve weeks into the future Up to 14 percent of cropland around the world has suffered from moderate to extreme levels of drought in 2022. This has had a significant effect on global agricultural supply chains, including decreased crop […]
Football forecasting, and other such mumbo jumbo
US-based video game developing giant EA Sports has now correctly predicted the winner of the FIFA World Cup the fourth time in a row. Coincidence or smart modelling? The good folk over at EA Sports do it by running thousands of simulations of the tournament games on its uber popular FIFA gaming franchise. But they’re […]
2023 – The Year of Edge AI
Edge AI use cases can help increase efficiency and reduce cost, making them a compelling place to focus new investments Supply chain challenges, labour shortages and economic uncertainty had companies re-evaluating their budgets for new technology. For many organizations, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is viewed as the solution to a lot of the uncertainty bringing improved […]
Decarbonizing the supply chain by getting to the ‘source’
New Accenture research finds it is now possible to identify the sourceof carbon emissions, enabling companies to take necessary actions Anything any company produces, in any part of the world, is most likely to have a natural resource component in it, that must be extracted from the planet – that is often the biggest source […]
The Fallacies of Forecasting
Economists have rather unceremoniously struggled with their forecasts. But can you really blame them? And in yet another rather dull revelation: economists have really struggled the past two years or so. Their forecasts have been all over the place, requiring constant revisions and almost never adequately hitting the mark. Truly, of all certainties, is this […]
The B2B Pivot
Business-to-business customer service expectations have undergone major changes over the past two years. First to digital-first is all that matters to stay competitive B2B (business-to-business) customer service organisations are noticing a major paradigm shift in the way business is conducted – customer service is gaining much more centrality than it ever did in the past. […]