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A fox, a hedgehog and an LLM – it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but this is in fact the introduction to a topic that is consuming the attention of Philip Tetlock, psychology professor, ...

We are all affected by ocean conditions, and we're talking about huge things like global food security and human health, to fisheries we depend on, to the transport of a whopping 90% of the world's ...

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Analyst Insight: AI revolutionizes initial inventory planning and stockpiling by estimating demand even when historical data is missing. This optimizes procurement, reduces costs, and prevents ...

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Political and other prognosticators are busy predicting the future, as usual. Never mind calculating how wrong they have been in the past. Our desire to know what’s coming sometimes overcomes sound ...

The start of the new academic year has all eyes looking ahead. As we all know, prediction is very difficult, particularly about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr cheekily put it. At the same time, ...

Many of us remember how Back to the Future Part II depicted our world: flying cars, hoverboards, virtual reality, and – shall we say – less than fashionable clothing. Sure, that’s an example of a ...