Artificial intelligence is rarely completely certain of its answers, but we trust it implicitly anyway. A new study published in Communications Psychology shows that users massively overestimate algorithms’ confidence. Our sky-high expectations for technology make us blindly accept information from machines as a given, even when the system is merely guessing and prone to error.
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A typical day in the emergency department. A patient comes in with chest pain, and there is little time to spare. The physician opens the patient’s chart and, within seconds, sees previous ECGs, a medication list, allergies, lab results, a CT scan, and notes from a cardiologist at another clinic. For the physician, it is just a screen. For the IT team, it is a complex chain of medical systems, storage, data exchange standards, access controls, and backups.
Something remarkable has been happening in Azerbaijan in recent years. Government institutions are being digitized at a pace that would have seemed unthinkable just a decade ago. A region that 10–15 years ago was considered a laggard in high technology is not simply catching up — it is increasingly looking like a success story in rolling out digitization across a state system.
Platform engineering is a hot topic right now. Platform is a product with self-service features, providing the right infrastructure, tools, and processes that enable efficient, scalable software development, deployment, and management. A 2025 Google Cloud/ESG research report found that 55% of global organizations have adopted platform engineering, with 90% of those planning to expand it further. In the majority of companies (85%), developers already rely on the platform.