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In recent years, people from the World Economic Forum have been talking, writing and dealing with a new field that in their view is critical to the future of the world: Bio-Convergence. Throughout history, scientific disciplines like biology, physics or engineering operated separately; there was almost no connection between them. But progress in the world of science has made it, science itself, co...

At the end of November 2022, a new bot was launched under the obviously stupid and unsexy name: ChatGPT. At OpenAI they didn't believe it would succeed, but not only did it succeed, it became a sensation that was the opening blow to the artificial intelligence revolution. A little over two years have passed and the GPT era is about to pass from the world. A new family of bots is making its way to...

Until recently, chatbots resembled diligent high school students, but today they are approaching the level of third-degree students, not to mention researchers already equipped with a doctorate. But as artificial intelligence advances, developers and external researchers are trying to find new ways to test and examine it: what is its level, how independent is it, how capable is it of performing co...

Until a decade or two ago, people who exposed us to new tastes had significant cultural status. Yoav Kutner had a tremendous influence on an entire generation of music lovers, and film critics were demigods: their taste, their preferences, their recommendations determined the fate of films, elevated or destroyed the careers of directors and actors. But gradually these people made way for something...

Last year we marked 50 years since the screening of Francis Ford Coppola's film - 'The Conversation', starring Gene Hackman, and in retrospect many agree that this film, which at the time achieved fairly modest success – perhaps because it was stuck between two other Coppola films, 'The Godfather 1' and 'The Godfather 2' – is one of his most important works. I will use this film and another Gene H...

In mid-March 2025, Sarah Wynn-Williams published her book ‘Careless People’. Wynn-Williams, a New Zealand native, former diplomat and lawyer who specialized in international law, joined Meta in 2011, when it was still called Facebook. She served as Director of Public Policy and her area of responsibility was South America, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region – areas where Facebook wanted to grow. I...

Simulators are a familiar, well-known and beloved genre in the world of computer games, and some of them are considered real milestones in gaming history. I'm talking about Microsoft Flight Simulator, I'm talking about The Sims and I'm talking about SimCity. SimCity was launched in 1989 and it was a strange game - a game you couldn't win or lose - and yet it took the world by storm. It sold millio...

The persuasion process is based mostly on language - spoken language and written language - but the chatbots that have taken the world by storm are language experts; this is what makes them so effective, so successful, so... persuasive. They can analyze information and then explain it, they can examine our texts and then improve them, they can write texts themselves. This is the reason why as thes...

Anyone who has visited Saudi Arabia in recent years hears one thing and one thing only from the locals: "Project 2030" or "Vision 2030". The goal of the vision, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is to reduce the Saudis' almost complete dependence on oil by diversifying the country's sources of income. Among other things, the Saudis are investing in entertainment, sports, government efficien...

Episode Description - A full episode dedicated to questions from listeners as I try to answer them spontaneously and without writing the answers in advance. We'll deal with artificial intelligence, new technological trends, good and bad companies, and also some scandalous predictions

Anyone who has visited Saudi Arabia in recent years hears one thing and one thing only from the locals: ‘Project 2030‘ or ‘Vision 2030‘. The goal of the vision, led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is to reduce the Saudis' almost complete dependence on oil by diversifying the country's sources of income. Among other things, the Saudis are investing in entertainment, sports, government efficien...