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Influence of Gen AI on Pharmaceutical Marketing – Now and in Five Years – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1088 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1088 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com  for publishing your contributions here. Credit: fauxels Credit: Polina Tankilevich Credit: This is Engineering Preamble It is a foregone conclusion that the Generative Artificial Intelligence – Gen AI or simply AI – has already started influencing every walk of life. The pace of change is so rapid that it has become difficult to keep adjusting with it. But we must keep pace with the changing landscape to survive respectably or risk to be perished. In this blog post, we see how AI has already influenced pharmaceutical marketing. We shall also try to visualize the next five years and the possible changes that might be coming. My reference is not strictly lo...

Five AI Trends to Watch in 2025 (and Beyond) – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1061 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1061 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Brett Sayles Credit: Christina Morillo Credit: Ron Lach This post is inspired by an article by Rob Howard of https://innovatingwithai.com and PWC report. Link at the end. Preamble I keep returning to the topic of AI because it is the most happening field right now and shall remain so for the next several years.  According to PWC (Price Waterhouse Cooper) global report, Artificial Intelligence shall cause to increase global GDP by 14% in 2030. This will be the equivalent of additional $15.7 trillion. The report highlights that: • Labor productivity improvements will drive initial GDP gains as firms seek to augment the productivity of ...

Three Important Tech Stories of 2024 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1050 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 1050 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Tara Winstead Credit: Darlene Anderson Credit: Mizuno K Credit: Moose Photos Preamble Year 2024 saw revolutionary changes in various areas of technology. Most notable were in the field of or related to Artificial Intelligence – AI. Many people are writing about technology every day or week, and mostly on AI. I read a few regularly and I have come to like a short daily newsletter from Martin Crowley and Liam Lawson, titled ‘AI Tool Report’. This blogpost is also based on it. Link at the end. Top 3 Stories of 2024 #1 – Open AI Launches First Reasoning Model – o1 In September 2024, OpenAI launched its first reasoning models—o1-preview (for general users...

Future Big Arenas of Competition – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1043 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1043 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: cottonbro studio Credit: Kampus Production Credit: Nataliya Vaitkevich Credit: Sanket Mishra Credit: Vika Glitter This blogpost is based on a survey report of MGI – Mckinsey Global Institute. Owing to the enormity of subject, it will take more than one blog post. Link at the end. Preamble The MGI survey identified 12 arenas from 2005 to 2020, in which certain companies grew much bigger than others. Based on this learning; they also identified 18 arenas of today which possibly would shape the global economy, generating $29 trillion to $48 trillion in revenue by 2040. I presented 12 previous arenas in the last blogpost. I shall now discuss the 18 future ...

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1041 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1041 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Bianca Salgado Credit: Mikael Blomkvist Credit: Pavel Danilyuk This blogpost also partakes information from a McKinsey article. Link at the end. Preamble Artificial General Intelligence – AGI – is a theoretical AI system with capabilities that are as good as humans.  AGI refers to an advanced form of artificial intelligence that can perform any intellectual task a human can do, with comparable levels of understanding, reasoning, and adaptability. Unlike current AI systems, which are domain-specific and limited to predefined tasks (narrow AI), AGI would possess general reasoning abilities and the capacity to learn and apply knowledge across a w...

Artificial Intelligence – Lovers, Haters, and Their Arguments – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #969 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 969 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Aathif Aarifeen Credit: Kübra Kuzu Credit: Matheus Bertelli Help for this two-part blogpost has been taken from ChatGPT4o, HubSpot, Mckinsey, and MIT. The Haters of AI – What Concerns Them? Job Displacement and Economic Inequality Critics worry that generative AI will lead to significant job losses, particularly in sectors where routine tasks are prevalent. While new jobs may be created, there is concern that they will not adequately replace the displaced positions, leading to greater economic inequality. In every organization, probably most jobs are repetitive because these tasks must be done every day to keep the or...

Impact of Generative AI on Office Work – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #927 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #927 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com . Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Michelangelo Buonaratti Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Polina Zimmerman Credit: Tara Winstead The onslaught of Generative Artificial Intelligence – Gen AI is so powerful that virtually all areas of life are being/going to be impacted. We need to talk about it, discuss it at every forum, and take steps to incorporate Gen AI into our business operations and a wide range of other areas. It is such a sad commentary that with every major development in the world, Pakistan slides back even further. Our organizations get back further into their conventional ways of working and close the doors so that the development will not reach them. There is a famou...

Bard is now Gemini – What about Other Generative AI Tools? – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #912 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #912 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Google Images Credit: Google Images Credit: Google Images Credit: Google Images Credit: Mojahid Mottakin Generative AI became the hottest topic with the arrival of Chat GPT from Open AI. Probably, the news spread more quickly for it than any other technological development so far. We understand that several more companies had been working on this subject, but Open AI took the lead, and are still striving to keep the lead. Google announced Bard and launched it shortly after. Microsoft brought their Copilot. Bard and Copilot were embed...

Growing Impact of Generative AI on Healthcare – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #902 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #902 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: This is Engineering Credit: Michelangelo Buonarotti Credit: Google Deepmind It is true that we are seriously behind in development and the gap between our country and the developed world is widening with passing time. However, in the digital space, we have generally been able to stay close to major developments. The irony is that the ills of technology reach us immediately, while the benefits take much longer and may or may not arrive fully. An important factor is that we prefer to use technology which comes free of cost, because we hate to pay f...