June 17, 2017 |
brian wang |
Alphabet’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt cited a study by McKinsey released at the Viva Tech conference in Paris on Thursday, which suggested 90 percent of jobs are not fully automatable. The Alphabet chairman said that while some of the routine …
June 8, 2017 |
brian wang |
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has predicted that the global economy is set to grow 3.5 percent in 2017, followed by an increase to 3.6 percent in 2018 as confidence is increasing and investment and trade are picking …
June 6, 2017 |
brian wang |
According to a survey of more than 350 artificial intelligence researchers there is a 50 per cent chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years. AI will master many activities a lot sooner, though. Machines are …
June 1, 2017 |
brian wang |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has become the first head of a major semiconductor company to say what academics have been suggesting for some time: Moore’s Law is dead. Since 1975, the number of transistors on a chip doubled every two …
April 29, 2017 |
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Morgan Stanley and Michael Pettis differ on what China’s sustainable economic growth rate is over the next ten to fifteen years China. Morgan Stanley, however, proposes that China can manage to grow at an average annual rate above 5 percent …
April 19, 2017 |
brian wang |
The relative strength of nowcast projections (global growth at 4.4%) compared with more staid IMF forecasts (global growth 3.5%) are a result of ebullient consumer and business confidence surveys, particularly the US. Nowcasts, like those from Fulcrum and the Federal …
March 30, 2017 |
brian wang |
There is evidence for subsurface oceans within nearly a dozen bodies (planets, asteroids and moons) in the solar system. Jupiter’s Europa, Saturn’s Enceladus and Titan have the strongest evidence. The Asteroid Ceres has joined Mars and several satellites of the …
