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CAMBRIDGE: Speculation about AI’s implications for society has reached a fever pitch. While OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman speaks of a future of radical abundance, others, including another OpenAI co-founder, Ilya Sutskever, warn of existential...
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CAMBRIDGE: Is AI transforming the economy in any real sense, or is the promise of rapid growth mere hype? US stock markets certainly favour the former view: shares of AI and tech companies have accounted for about three-quarters of the S&P 500...
WASHINGTON, DC: OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have joined the chorus of people talking about an AI bubble and expressing concern that the US economy will nosedive when it bursts. But...
NIJMEGEN: Modern AI technologies severely impede humans’ ability to learn and retain skills, while also making it nearly impossible for academics and other experts to cultivate and disseminate knowledge. Many scholars, including us, have...
BOGOTÁ: On my first day in office as Colombia’s president just over 15 years ago, I met with the leaders of four indigenous peoples in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – the Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo. As we stood...
Cornwall Regional Hospital has been forced to prioritise trauma and cancer cases as a surge in road accident victims strains its operating schedule, says Dr. Delroy Fray, clinical coordinator for the Western Regional Health Authority. With 285...
Opposition Spokesperson on Justice Zulieka Jess is calling for the Government to expand its proposed expungement reforms by automatically clearing not only non-custodial offences but also convictions carrying sentences of five years or less after a...
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson has remained notably silent on CARICOM’s muted response to unfolding global conflicts and humanitarian crises. Once a leading voice for regional unity and international justice, Patterson has not publicly...
A St James taxi operator says the deplorable state of the Montpelier main road is eating away at his earnings, forcing him to spend $30,000 to $40,000 each week on vehicle repairs. The driver, identified only as Junior, said constant damage to his...
Jamaicans were left reeling after two suspected suicides occurred within a 24-hour period – one at The University of the West Indies, Mona, and the other involving a police officer in St Elizabeth. Twenty-year-old UWI student Victoria Hanley-...
Dr Faith Alexander is urging Jamaica’s teacher-training colleges to include special education modules in all programmes to better equip teachers to support neurodivergent learners. She said too many children with learning differences enter...
As Jamaica’s judiciary embraces artificial intelligence, experts are urging the establishment of proper systems to govern its use in court operations. Following Chief Justice Bryan Sykes’ introduction of protocols for AI-generated...
A new global poverty report has found that nearly 79,000 Jamaicans – about 2.8 per cent of the population – are living in multidimensional poverty, surviving on less than US$3 a day and facing deprivations in health, education, and...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week's past line-up of cartoons as...
Sir Alexander Bustamante and Lady Bustamante were the centre of attention at a glittering reception hosted by the Thursday Club of Young Jamaica at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel. Against a backdrop of music, coloured lights, and warm fellowship, the...
Jamaica’s Olympic football team stunned spectators by holding Uruguay’s Club Nacional to a 1-1 draw. After falling behind in the second half, the young and inexperienced Jamaicans roared back with a determined equaliser that sent...
