Building the Present, Creating the Future with Bee'ah

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This may look at first glance like some alien aircraft but while it certainly is out of this world, the reality is this is the future of the office.

Commissioned by sustainability champions BEEAH Group, this stunning new headquarters in the desert sands of the United Arab Emirates takes your breath away.

Unmistakably from Zaha Hadid Associates, this building is not only beautiful and designed to reflect the curvaceous desert dunes, it is super smart, with AI at its core.

Welcome to the future of work.

12 March 2023

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Everyone’s talking about ChatGPT

OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has everyone talking. The AI-powered conversation tool, which enables dialogue-based conversations and can craft coherent essays, attracted 1 million users in the five days after launch.

It’s the first in a long list of AI-driven apps, examples of a technology dubbed ‘generative AI’ that could transform human productivity and the future of work.

During Davos 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the “golden age of AI was under way” and it would redefine the world of work as we know it. Microsoft, which has invested US$1bn in OpenAI, is opening up access to new AI tools like ChatGPT.

Nadella said technologies like ChatGPT act “as a co-pilot, helping people to do more with less”. He pointed to two recent use cases of GPT technology: a Silicon Valley expert coder who improved productivity by 80%; and an Indian farmer who used a GPT interface to access an opaque government program, despite only speaking a local dialect.

 ACCESS TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Following several years of global instability, people are gaining greater access to emerging technologies — AI, web3, and tokenisation — which is advancing the next generation of creativity, community and data privacy, Accenture Life Trends 2023 finds.

 CEOS RETAIN TALENT

While the CEO outlook for 2023 is the most pessimistic on global economic growth in the past 12 years, 60% are not planning to reduce the size of their workforce in the next 12 months, or reduce renumeration (80%), PwC’s global CEO Survey finds.

 CYBER STORM COMING

A cyber storm is brewing, experts at Davos 2023 warned. "This storm is brewing, and it's really hard to anticipate just how bad that will be, Sadie Creese, a Professor of Cyber Security at the University of Oxford said.

 CHINA’S ECONOMY

While China’s GDP expanded 3% in 2022, it was one of its weakest annual performances in decades thanks to zero-COVID policy and slowing overseas demand. Shanghai’s economy saw negative growth for first time since 1978.