The future of the IMEC

The future of the IMEC

The India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor visualises maritime connectivity between India and the Arabian Peninsula, as well as high-speed trains running from the ports in the UAE to the Haifa port through Saudi Arabia and Jordan. However, the situation in West Asia mandates that the corridor’s routes adapt to political dynamics

The future of EV sales

This morning, I performed a quick exercise asking ChatGPT to project EV share of U.S. light vehicle sales over the next decade. Here’s the S-curve (logistic) fit applied to the observed EV-share data. It is not a bad guess and saved me $...

The future of AI

Gary Marcus misses the point in his review of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s and Nate Soares’s If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (September 19), as, presumably, do the authors of the book. AI is not a monster that one day comes into existence, ex nihilo: it develops. That is, we are the proverbial frogs in a pot put on to boil. The numerous ways it could develop have been imagined in books, television and film for decades. These visions of AI, some more p…