On January 18, Time magazine published revelations that alarmed if not necessarily surprised many who work in Artificial Intelligence. The news concerned ChatGPT, an advanced AI chatbot that is both hailed as one of the most intelligent AI systems built to date and feared as a new frontier in potential plagiarism and the erosion of craft in writing. Many had wondered how ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, had improved upon earlier versions of this technology that would quickly descend into hate speech. The answer came in the Time magazine piece: dozens of Kenyan workers were paid less than $2 per hour to process an endless amount of violent and hateful content in order to make a system primarily marketed to Western users safer. It should be clear to anyone paying attention that our current paradigm of digitalisation has a labour problem. We have and are pivoting away from the ideal of an open internet built around communities of shared interests to one that is dominated by the commercial prerogatives of a handful of companies located in specific geographies.

He played one of the most memorable machines in sci-fi movie history. Now, the star of the Terminator films, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has appeared on stage to plug BMW's new AI-inspired car. The actor and former governor of California took to the stage during the German automobile firm's keynote address at CES 2023 in Las Vegas on Wednesday. 'Arnie' was then joined on stage by BMW CEO Oliver Zipse, who introduced the firm's new colour-changing car, the BMW i Vision Dee. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks during BMW's keynote at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday.

The regulatory approach towards artificial intelligence is currently the subject of heated debate among policy makers. This regulatory debate is, however, dominated by a one-dimensional viewpoint, in which the digital forest cannot always be seen for its trees. Contrary to popular belief, however, artificial intelligence does not in and of itself constitute a regulatory problem. Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new phenomenon. Various AI applications, such as machine vision, have been in use in Finland for several decades.

In an era of accelerated digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have fast become part of the IT infrastructure of many businesses. Consequently, how these technologies are being used to derive meaningful insights from vast quantities of data is maturing rapidly. "Early on, when organisations didn't have access to the computing power and zettabytes of data that they have today, AI was only springing up in pockets," says Vaidya JR, SVP and global head of data and AI at IT transformation specialist Hexaware Technologies, "The approach then was to see what AI could do for a company, without truly identifying a well-defined problem. Data science solutions were just a shot in the dark. "Organisations were struggling to put their data to effective use, which led to limited value generated and ineffectual business results," he adds. "You can crunch any amount of data, and create numerous models; it only adds value if there is a significant impact on the business.

Digital transformation has gained significant momentum in recent years. The fact that digitalisation in the construction industry is pointing upwards is not only due to the Covid-19 pandemic and a general increase in interest in digitalisation topics, but above all to the convincing added values that can be achieved along the entire value chain with the help of digital tools. These include, for example, better overall planning of projects and the associated resources, increased cost and schedule reliability through simulations with the digital twin, improved communication and collaboration between the numerous trades involved – especially in large projects, faster coordination through paperless processes and stringent quality assurance across all project phases. There are benefits in terms of sustainability, too – the construction sector is, after all, responsible for almost 40% of global carbon emissions – enormous potential is available through increased efficiency in construction and operation, better planning of materials, improved recycling and the reduced production of waste. While digitalisation has already made inroads in the construction industry, another technology is now well on its way to becoming an integral part of the construction process: artificial intelligence (AI).

Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has refuted claims by a section of the public that automation and digitalisation will create an undesirable era of joblessness where robots will replace manpower demands of industry. Conservatives have, over the years, argued that advancement in technology and widespread deployment of robots would put a chunk of the youthful working population out of work. But speaking at the inauguration of Academic City University College in Accra Wednesday, Dr. Bawumia said studies have shown that that argument is unfounded. He argued that rather, a highly digitalised establishment with high use of robots and other digital technology increased staff numbers compared to institutions with limited digitalisation. According to him, advancement in every civilized society according to the vice president will largely rely on advancement in Artificial intelligence and ICT.

While a robot doctor at the bedside is not on the horizon, data-driven digital health is transforming how we receive care - and society is still playing catch-up on the ramifications. In 2012, Professor Enrico Coiera, Founding Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) at the Australian Institute for Health Innovation, published a paper titled The Dangerous Decade. In it, he warned that more information and communication technology (ICT) would be deployed into healthcare in the 10 years to 2022 than in the health system's entire history to date. "Systems will be larger in scope, more complex, and move from regional to national and supranational scale," he wrote. "Yet we are at roughly the same place the aviation industry was in the 1950s with respect to system safety."

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to severely disrupt trade. Yet some trade finance banks had the foresight to plan for such an eventuality, utilising capabilities that overcome market-wide limits on documentary trade. As appetite for trade digitalisation grows, Conpend's CEO, Torben Sauer, explains how banks are increasingly turning to technology to automate their document checking using AI – eradicating logistical challenges following a surge in remote working caused by the pandemic, and streamlining paper-based processes and transforming operational efficiency Over the last two years, financial institutions (FIs) have experienced unparalleled disruption as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact regions across the world. What they have not experienced, however, is a major decline in functionality. While the crisis initially sent shockwaves through the financial markets in March 2020, the operations of most of the world's major banks converted to home working without a single day's loss in service.

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A new year is approaching and, thanks to the pandemic, brings with it the prospect of New Year's Eve celebrations built around the video calls and digital health passes that became a norm in 2021"A lot of these technologies were initially adopted at a time when we thought this was a short emergency," Frederike Kaltheuner, tech policy analyst and Director of the European AI Fund, a philanthropic initiative focused on shaping the role of artificial intelligence in Europe, told DW. "And I think 2022 is the year we're going to realise that this isn't really going away." In practice, this means that, while lockdowns and tangled supply chains weighed on the retail, service and industry sectors, Big Tech players reported record profits and continued to grow. From tech hardware to digital advertising to self-driving cars, during the pandemic Silicon Valley giants like Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft have moved further into each other's turf. This is according to Alexander Fanta, an EU tech policy journalist for netzpolitik, a German news outlet that covers the digital sphere. "The power of these companies is that they're so multidimensional. They corner different markets and then leverage the power gained from one market to dominate another," he told DW.