Nicholas Mitsakos Artificial General Intelligence Is a False Promise Artificial intelligence is disrupting all software and services — when applied within narrow and specific parameters. It performs useful tasks and provides meaningful information for decision-makers but within well-defined data sets. AI still has significant limitations, and large language artificial general…

Hydrogen While electric vehicles get most of the headlines, EVs are questionable “green” solutions, at best. Advancements in hydrogen and geothermal energy are creating more promising and impactful alternative energy strategies. In Germany large-scale production of green hydrogen (a clean substance using electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen)…

The Case for Optimism Isolationism, fragmentation, and pessimism always fail. In 1930, as global economies began to suffer, economic pessimism permeated the world and led to a spiral of protectionism, disintegrating trade, political isolation, and ultimately global destruction. John Maynard Keynes presciently said, “we are suffering from a bad attack…

New Thinking, Intractable Problems, and Existential Crises Our most intractable problems cannot be solved with behavior modification, conservation, or our existing technology, regardless of its advanced or widespread applications. Only new knowledge creating innovative solutions can address our most intractable problems. This can only be achieved through basic scientific discoveries…

Nicholas Mitsakos The separation of business and state. Zero-sum thinking has begun. Despite comparative advantage, mutual cooperation, and specialization proving indisputably more beneficial than any other approach to economic interaction, this ideal is under threat. …

Set Aside Your Proud Certainty Good advice for everyone. In his preamble to “The Theory of Relativity,” Einstein implored his reader to, “set aside your proud certainty” because he was about to present something quite revolutionary, iconoclastic, and, as he discovered for many years after publication, challenging to be broadly…

Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, and New Drug Discovery Text to breakthrough. Artificial intelligence models, such as Open AI’s DALL-E2 program, are trained to generate pictures from almost any text request. …

Nicholas Mitsakos Volatile stock and bond markets are not going away anytime soon, and investment strategies focused on discipline, market-tested algorithms, and the patience to withstand near-term turbulence will continue to deliver better results. As US stocks have dropped about 25% and US long-term treasuries dropped nearly 30%, specific strategies…

The most ambitious ideas are yet to be discovered. Most current innovations have yet to reach their potential, and new innovations are essential to address the most critical issues we confront, whether that is climate change, food scarcity, water shortages, or more effective distribution of innovation itself. Artificial Intelligence Advanced…