The Week (April 16)
“The world is reeling from a war-induced oil shock, and China is poised to take advantage. The country builds nearly every component of the 21st-century electrical grid that will be needed to replace the oil currently bottled up in the Strait of Hormuz.” As the age of the petrostate fades, China looks set to become “the world’s first electrostate.”
Tags: 21st century, Advantage, China, Electrical grid, Electrostate, Oil, Oil shock, Petrostate, Poised, Reeling, Replace, Strait of Hormuz, War-induced, World
Barron’s (February 25)
“Putting aside the whipsaw effect of recent tariff moves, the biggest problem plaguing the market in recent weeks is artificial intelligence. Investors are afraid it’s going to replace businesses wholesale, and empty big tech’s deep pockets to do it.”
Tags: Afraid, Artificial intelligence. Investors, Big tech, Deep pockets, Effect, Markes, Plaguing, Problem, Replace, Tariffs, Whipsaw
Bloomberg (March 16)
“Powerful AI systems like GPT-4 aren’t going to replace large swaths of professional workers, as many have instinctively feared. But they will put them under greater pressure to be more productive and faster at what they do. They will raise the bar on what is considered acceptable output and usher in an era of ultra-efficiency unlike anything we’ve seen before…. Watch out for how they might take you a tiny step closer to burnout.”
Tags: Acceptable, AI, Faster, Fear, GPT-4, Output, Powerful, Pressure, Productive, Professional workers, Replace, Ultra-efficiency
