In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. Human ...

Last week, I conducted an experiment to demonstrate how we can use an AI chatbot to test and validate, but also critique and refine an original idea or thesis. One clear advantage of artificial ...

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Donald Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) only moved the hands of the ...

Since India’s independence, the Census has enumerated Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) with their specific Jati (social group) details and their educational and economic profile.

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate ChatGPT to better understand how AI “reasons.” It’s like a conversation with an intelligent friend, sharing ideas and challenging some of the explanations. The key ...

Some trade economists argue that moderate tariffs, when carefully calibrated, can enhance national welfare within specific limits. Tariffs increase domestic prices of imported goods and potentially ...

After experimenting with AI chatbots for the past two years, I’ve learned a lot. Because AI theoretically has access to all the text that humans have published, an endless stream of themes — including ...

In the latest news from the AI frontier, the townspeople appear to agree there’s a new sheriff in town. No one is sure whether the former sheriff, OpenAI, who has been enforcing the law of the state ...

Following the well-known strategy of evoking questions on which agreement can be easily established before broaching the more controversial issues, I began with the following prompt. “I would like to ...

India’s remarkable transformation has been reflected in its ascent from being labeled one of the “Fragile Five” economies to becoming one of the top five economies worldwide in less than a decade.

On January 9, United States President Donald Trump said he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said, “Putin wants to meet,” because “we have to get ...

After 15 months, the Israel–Hamas war that decimated the Gaza Strip and destabilized the Middle East has come to a ceasefire with a three-phase peace deal. The deal seeks to put a permanent end to the ...