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ChatGPT & AI: Stop Panicking and Look at the Potentials
Fears about ChatGPT and AI are understandable but overblown. The economic opportunities are huge and they will outweigh the risks.
Open Letter to Pete Buttigieg
USDOT’s road safety strategy is focused on replacing humans as drivers, with no coherent plan in place to save lives by making human drivers safer.
ChatGPT is Turbocharging Fraudsters
Among the unintended consequences of OpenAI’s chatbot is a powerful new tool for scamming humans.
ChatGPT Will Eat Our Brains
The genie is out of the bottle; nothing will be the same again.
Pay Attention, the Chatbots Are Talking
One of the things that differentiates ChatGPT from more narrowly defined functional chatbots is that it responds in a way that makes it seem human and friendly.
As Foundry Use Surges, IDM Renaissance Becomes Critical
The semiconductor market is becoming dangerously dependent upon foundries. IDMs can help rebalance the supply chain.
Can GM & GlobalFoundries Fix Auto Supply Chain Chaos?
GlobalFoundries has played the “domestic chip manufacturing” card and “better visibility claim” over the supply chain, to establish a new direct source model. And GM bought it.
Podcast: Missy Cummings Is No Debbie Downer
Guest: Professor in the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments
Buyer Beware: Weaponized SAE Levels Are Here
SAE levels open the door for carmakers and lobbyists to redefine disparate versions of “autonomy.”
Eyes on Mobileye’s Eyes-off Driving Claims
Mobileye’s CEO introduced eyes-off driving across a full range of operational design domains. His claim: “You can go to sleep. You can do whatever you like.”
AV Companies Got Real Data in San Francisco. NHTSA Wants It.
The Federal safety agency sent a letter to GM. If GM responds, we might find out everything we wanted to know about Cruise.
Ex-CTO of Foxconn’s EV Biz Levels Charges, Forced to Quit
The personnel turmoil could spell trouble for Foxconn’s automotive business.
If Nobody’s Driving a Self-Driving Car, Who Do You Sue?
Expect sparks to fly when experts discuss who should be named as the driver of autonomous vehiles in Washington State. A public hearing on the state AV bill is scheduled at 4:00PM PT Tuesday this week.
MicroEJ Challenges IoT’s Forest of Silos
MicroEJ aims to turn conventional embedded systems — traditionally siloed and unconnected — into more agile, software-defined IoT devices.
Girding for War, Taiwan Must Also Invest In Its Economic Future
A survival strategy includes nurturing a new generation of leaders focused on more than defying China’s intentions to subjugate the island.
Taiwan’s Illustrious But Aging Semiconductor Pioneers
Who’s who in Taiwan’s booming semiconductor industry–and who’s next.
Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry Must Look Outward
Former technology minister says overseas expansion also addresses the island’s resource and talent constraints.
The Tangled Triangle of Biden, Apple and TSMC
Why is Apple willing to pay as much as 50 percent more to have TSMC manufacture its chips in Arizona? One possibility is a corporate tax break.
HU’s in Charge Here?
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
—Doc Brown, Back to the Future 2
Time for Templeton of TI to Make a Graceful Exit
Incoming CEO Haviv Ilan must form his own management team as the analog and embedded vendor charts a new course.
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