Lant Pritchett says the world’s wealthiest nations will face a significant labor shortage, and labor mobility is the best way to deal with it. Pritchett is an economist and research director for the Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP). He joined Simon Johnson, professor of entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, on…

Smart technology can provide better and faster care for the elderly, while easing pressure on staff, according to Health Secretary Steve Barclay. Ahead of his trip to the G-7 Summit in Nagasaki, Japan, Barclay spoke about the role of robots and AI technology in supporting patients in care homes across the UK. Learning how other…

China’s Baidu announced it will complete the internal testing of Ernie Bot (Chinese name: Wenxin Yiyan), a ChatGPT-style AI project, in March and open it to the public. However, some experts are not optimistic about Baidu’s product due to the ubiquitous censorship of “sensitive words” under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. On Feb. 7,…

Facebook, now Meta, has developed the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of automatically verifying hundreds of thousands of citations at once, a feature that it says could help make entries on Wikipedia “more accurate.” Researchers designed the AI in a way that it can find appropriate sources for a claim from among millions…

News Analysis Chinese researchers recently developed artificial intelligence technology that can gauge Chinese officials’ loyalty to the ruling Communist Party. The technology could be a tool for Beijing’s anti-corruption campaign to monitor further and purge “corrupt” Party members, indicating the regime’s growing fear of losing its legitimacy and power. More than 4.7 million officials at all…

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is largely dependent on computer chips designed by American companies for its progress in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, according to a new report by researchers at Georgetown University. The authors of the study, published in June, analyzed 24 public contracts awarded by PLA units and state-owned defense enterprises in 2020, sifting through…

“Hello everyone, I am the artificial intelligence news anchor on National Business Daily. I am the virtual twin of the original host. I have been running—reporting the news—undetected for 70 days now,” the AI news anchor N Xiaohei revealed itself to its television viewers on Dec. 20, 2021, after 1700 hours of a continuous live…

The Ministry of Education of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added 37 new undergraduate majors to the universities of China, that will be available for the fall enrolment. More than 25 percent are related to artificial intelligence (AI). Last December, Outlook Institute, one of the CCP’s think tanks, listed AI as one of the…