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Invite Friends   From the Editor's Desk Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress. One evening last October, the artificial intelligence researcher Gary Marcus was amusing himself on his iPhone by making a state-of-the-art neural network look stupid. Marcus' target, a deep learning network called GPT-2, had recently become famous for its uncanny ability to generate plausible-sounding English prose with just a sentence or two of prompting. When journalists at The Guardian fed it text from a report on Brexit, GPT-2 wrote entire newspaper-style paragraphs, complete with convincing political and geographic references. Marcus, a prominent critic of AI hype, gave the neural network a pop quiz. He typed the following into GPT-2: What happens when you stack kindling and logs in a fireplace and then drop some matches is that you typically start a ... Surely a system smart enough to contribute to The New Yorker would have no trouble completing the sentence with the obvious word, "fire." GPT-2 responded with "ick." Continued here TradeBriefs: What's important, not just what's popular! Advertisers of the day Emeritus: PG Diploma in Digital Business by Emeritus in collaboration with MIT Sloan & Columbia Business School Executive Education | Accepting Applications Emeritus: Accepting Applications for the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership | 6 Months, Online Emeritus: PG Diploma in Innovation & Design Thinking | Accepting Applications Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails.     These Lego-like modular houses can grow along with your family Need to add a third floor? Just pop the roof off and slide one in. How to Feed Crowds in a Protest or Pandemic? The Sikhs Know Their centuries-old faith tradition of nourishing anyone in need has found new energy and purpose in America's turmoil. Reliance, Samara Cap in advanced talks to buy Future Retail The deal is in advanced stages of discussion and the group is trying to close the transaction within this month, said one of the people on condition of anonymity.Kishore Biyani's debt-related woes surfaced in March when shares of his listed firms plunged, triggering a rating downgrade of the promoter holding firm and invocation of pledged shares by lenders In India, the YouTube-TikTok Rivalry Turns Nasty From CarryMinati’s roast to ‘liking’ to ‘unsubscribing’ to ‘unistalling’-- its a digital war. Hit hard by lockdown, brass parts industry in Jamnagar receives a fresh lease of life from imports by China With approximately 5,000 units, Jamnagar is the largest brass parts manufacturing cluster in Asia and has annual turnover totalling to around Rs 2,000 crore. These 5 startups are helping build a sustainable and environment-friendly future in India Earth's natural resources are being depleted at an alarmingly fast rate. But a few startups are helping to solve the crisis that the planet is facing. Here's the email you should send everyone you know when you're looking for a new job Omar Havana/Getty ImagesGet over the embarrassment.Telling people that your life is anything less than perfect can be embarrassing.As in: I'm single, but I'd A fascinating map of the world's most and least racially tolerant countries History Suggests the Handshake Will Survive the Pandemic The casteist and racist origins of the Indian Army's recruitment policies Read this exciting story from The Caravan March 2020. The casteist and racist origins of the Indian Army’s recruitment policies Negative thinking linked to dementia in later life, but you can learn to be more positive Repetitive negative thinking in later life was linked to cognitive decline and greater deposits of two harmful proteins responsible for Alzheimer's disease, a new study found. But you can fight back by training your brain to be more optimistic. Why filming police violence has done nothing to stop it The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers was captured on video, not once but half a dozen times. As we try to understand why a police officer continued compressing a man's neck and spine for minutes after he'd lost consciousness, we have footage from security cameras at Cup Foods, where Floyd allegedly paid… Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has a message for women: "Be 100% committed to your career, don't just give it a shot" Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has been named EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020, becoming the third Indian and the second woman worldwide to win this recognition. She recounts her entrepreneurial struggles. Donald Trump's rhetoric is steadily chasing Indians out of the US—towards Canada Charted. Global economy to plunge into worst recession since WW-II: World Bank Per capita incomes to decline by 3.6% with millions slipping into poverty Goodbye to open office spaces? How experts are rethinking the workplace. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating workers' worries about returning to jobs in these often debated floor plans. A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety The so-called honor killing of a 14-year-old girl in Iran has shaken the country and forced an examination of its failure to protect women and children. Qatar cuts pay of foreign employees working with govt-funded organisations Declines in energy prices have dented Gulf states' coffers just as local economies struggle under pandemic-driven lockdowns.Foreigners constitute 95% of the total workforce Bollywood's silence on domestic issues leads to accusations of hypocrisy For many, messages of anti-racism and solidarity rang hollow coming from the mouths of Bollywood's biggest names How to Revive MSMEs Post COVID-19 Lockdown Bank managers have no sense of how much money can be productively used by MSME borrowers and are hence afraid to lend. Transparency will help. Building a better India: Sell public assets to fund national version of MGNREGA for urban workers Just compare India with East Asia, which neither interpreted self-sufficiency as rejection of trade nor capitalism as an alien Western ideology. Anand Mahindra tweets tips for surviving India's Covid-19 slump Feedback loops. Vietnam's Richest Man Has a Plan to Save the Virus-Stricken World You Need More Customers, Not Higher-Paying Ones Raising your prices or having higher-paying customers seems secure. Diversifying your customer base is even more powerful. Here are 3 reasons why. Five Hedge Fund Heads Made More Than $1 Billion Each Last Year Complete guide to become a Data Scientist Data science courses, data science books, data science materials How we can survive the great COVID lockdown: IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath In this Q&A, the International Monetary Fund's Chief Economist discusses ways out of the Global Lockdown, as COVID-19 poses big global threats for debt and employment. With this antiviral fabric coating, your clothing could protect you from COVID-19 A chemical treatment for textiles has been proven to destroy the SARS-CoV-2 virus, paving the way for the first COVID-19-busting apparel lines as early as fall. J.K. Rowling Is Destroying Her Legacy, One Tweet At A Time Why couldn't she just stick to fiction? 8 Questions Employers Should Ask About Reopening Timing is everything. Amsterdam to Clean Up Sex-and-Drugs Tourism in Post-Virus Reboot 12 facts about space that will rock your world We live in a strange Solar System. An Indian IT veteran's tips for corporate leaders to survive the pandemic From "peace time leaders" to "war time generals." Why We Procrastinate When We Have Long Deadlines Having more time for a task can make it seem more difficult. Actor Sonu Sood Meets Uddhav Thackeray After Sena Leader's Criticism Actor Sonu Sood, who has been praised on social media for arranging transport for stranded migrants, called on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at his Mumbai residence "Matoshree". 5 takeaways from John Oliver's outstanding 'Last Week Tonight' episode on defunding the police Sunday's 'Last Week Tonight' was devoted to the civil unrest brewing around the country and demystified what has emerged as a prominent potential solution. Why Now Is the Time to Have a Second Career as an Entrepreneur A popular myth is that startups are only for the young. In fact, most new entrepreneurs are between 45 and 64, and success rates move up with age. MSME retailers stare at sustained downturn as consumer demand less likely to recover post lockdown Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs: Retailers have already been reeling under the lockdown impact for over two months with little to no revenue to sustain operations. How A New French Cheese Was Accidentally Created During Lockdown Thanks to lockdown, India's first six-level flyover will have to wait Billed as the Package 3 of Reach 5 of Metro Phase-II, the structure will rise to a height of 35 metres and its maximum width will be 43 metres, said Deputy Chief Engineer N Sadashiva. A black activist who trained police officers on implicit bias was injured with rubber bullet during protest A black activist who trained the San Jose Police Department on implicit bias was shot with a rubber bullet and seriously injured by the same department during a protest, the mayor's office said. U.S. Naval Buildup in Indo-Pacific Seen as Warning to China The U.S. national defense strategy cites China as a top security concern, and Pentagon leaders have been working to shift more resources and military assets to the region Democrats' sweeping new police reform bill, explained Among other measures, Democrats want to end qualified immunity and chokeholds. Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide Although they receive a fraction of the attention devoted to state-sponsored groups or headline-grabbing heists, "cyber mercenary" services are widely used. Widow of Wuhan whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang gives birth to their son The wife of Li Wenliang, the Wuhan whistleblower doctor who died of coronavirus in February, has given birth to their son, according to the Chinese state-run Litchi News. Coronavirus: Restart tourism to beat virus, says United Nations Travel is down, fear is up and the future is uncertain, says the UN as it urges restarting tourism. Iran To Execute Spy Who Helped US Target General Qasem Soleimani Iran said Tuesday it will execute a man whose conviction for spying for the US and Israel by helping target a top Iranian general has been upheld by the supreme court. The ancient Peruvian mystery solved from space These puzzling holes in the arid valleys of southern Peru tell us there was once a flourishing, sophisticated society here The story of Delhi's iconic bookstore that lost its battle against Covid-19 A first-person account. Not a humble bite: Parle-G broke this 80-year-old record during lockdown One of India's oldest biscuit brands, Parle-G broke its sales records of the past 80 years during the lockdown months of March, April and May in 2020 In post-pandemic India, pre-owned cars will become more popular than ever Early trends. Jio-Facebook's Alibaba-like model to open door for $2 trillion market; retail, payment, content key to success With Mukesh Ambani and Mark Zuckerberg joining hands to contribute to India's digital economy, the Jio-Facebook platform may actually open doors for a market which is likely to reach $2 trillion or even more by 2025. Why we should be wary of our loud, overconfident colleagues "Just because somebody can speak very assertively, or can speak in a very confident way, doesn't mean that person's smart." IBM to stop selling facial recognition services in response to #BlackLivesMatter CEO Arvind Krishna called for "national dialogue" on use of facial recognition tech Singapore's Future Won't Look Like the One Before the Virus TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. 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