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THE DAILY INDEX

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

TLDR

WILL ALL OUR DRUGS COME FROM CHINA?

The West's big car manufacturers are facing an existential threat from Chinese manufacturers, which relatively recently began pushing the boundaries of performance, cost-efficiency, driver experience, and autonomy. Western carmakers have been content to innovate in a gradual way for far too long, and it could cease to be competitive. This could also happen to the biotech industry. There has been a steady rise in Chinese companies as a source of genuinely new drugs. Chinese companies are now responsible for about a quarter of new trial starts.

ARE PEOPLE'S BOSSES REALLY MAKING THEM USE AI TOOLS?

Many companies are making employees use AI tools, outsourcing responsibilities to a technology that often gets things completely wrong. AI is completely incapable of doing analytical work that requires creative and soft skills and a lot of experience. Large language models are language processing systems, so it shouldn't be surprising that they can only regurgitate generic advice. Workers stuck using AI tools need to document their use carefully so they are able to demonstrate how the tools cause problems, slowdowns, or other disappointing outcomes.

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