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Category: Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT’s New Version

31 January 20234 February 2023
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, e-governance, Economics, Innovation
Yesterday, OpenAI released a new iteration of ChatGPT, version 3.5.  To quickly check, I decided to ask some of the same questions I did back in December. The table below compares the results. ChatGPT November 2022 v3.0 January 30 2023, Read more

Chatting with ChatGPT

15 December 20222 February 2023
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Governance, Human Development
OpenAI’s new shiny chatbot, with the not-so-brilliant name of ChatGPT, has taken the world by storm, surprising most, company staff included. Evidence of the latter stems from the fact that whenever one tries to access the platform,  a message announcing Read more

How Green is AI?

1 December 202215 January 2023
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Playing Games My father taught me how to play chess when I was nine years old or thereabouts. He played his fair share of games while he was studying engineering. He told me that a few of his classmates quit Read more

RegTech is Here!

20 September 20221 October 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Economics, Governance
Modern FinTech saw the light of day with the launching of ATM machines in the late 60s. A few years later, NASDAQ was born, credit cards exploded and banks started to deploy mainframes and minicomputer computers to support their operations. Read more

Hacking Public Policy Making with AI

15 February 20221 March 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, e-governance, Human Development
Modern Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPC) has been around for 25 years, imported into the mainstream from the health sector and its success with randomized controlled trials. The latter has now spread to many other sectors and research areas. A few Read more

AI National Policies – III

1 November 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Policy Evolution Comparatively speaking, AI national policies and strategies have evolved much slower than other digital strategies such as ICT, Digital Government, and Open Data. That might seem paradoxical given the systemic benefits and risks of the revived and now Read more

AI National Policies – II

15 October 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
As mentioned in the previous post, policymakers should skip over the dominant technology-centered AI perspective and instead position AI as a multi-dimensional structure cutting across all sectors. Indeed, national AI policy effectiveness depends to a large extent on the AI Read more

AI National Policies – I

1 October 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
National policy development on new digital technologies has become a staple since the emergence of the Internet in the early 1990s. It has certainly not been limited to most advanced countries. Nations in the Global South have also climbed the Read more

AI Topography

2 August 202114 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
For the last 30 years, the seemingly endless number of so-called technology revolutions invading our expansive yet decaying landscape has been accompanied by a proliferation of wide-ranging publications, usually playing catch-up while trying to predict the future on the spot. Read more

Waiting for yet another Industrial Revolution

5 July 202126 July 2021
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, e-governance, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
The PC revolution. The Internet revolution. The mobile revolution. The social media revolution. The blockchain revolution. And the AI re-revolution. We seem to be living in times of Permanent Revolution. Also reminds me of the Age of Revolution that thrived Read more

AI and Development Policies

28 February 202114 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Strongly supported by behemoth tech companies, the “ethical and responsible” AI discourse has almost completely overshadowed the relevant conversation on the potential socio-economic impact the resurgent technology might have in developing countries. While such discourse’s subtle agenda, apparently now failing, Read more

Greater “AI for Good”

22 January 202114 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, ICTD, Inequality
The proliferation of top, best, fails and prediction posts on almost any topic is now a staple of the annual transition from one year to the next. As the new year starts seeing the light of day, we seem compelled Read more

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