July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The shuttering of Koo, a microblogging website similar to Twitter (now X), has rekindled discussions about why India doesn’t have its own Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp, and whether a protectionist approach like China’s is necessary…
July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 1:37 PM IST
A team achieves more than an individual can do. One team member might be good at generating ideas, another at expanding the ideas to a plot, another at finding inaccuracies and editing the content, and…
July 6, 2024, 1:37 PM IST
July 6, 2024, 12:36 PM IST
The implementation of AI in financial systems is changing the central banking systems around the world with more prospects that may transform the world economy in a positive or negative manner. Monetary authorities standing at…
July 6, 2024, 12:36 PM IST
July 5, 2024, 8:33 PM IST
ChatGPT changed my life – said a friend of mine who runs a successful business in 2023. Come 2024, he said I am not able to get the most out of generic LLM which everyone…
July 5, 2024, 8:33 PM IST
July 4, 2024, 3:46 PM IST
Social media has thronged our minds with unwanted information. The addiction to reels or shorts of social media is causing great harm to society by making people myopic in their thought processes. The society that…
July 4, 2024, 3:46 PM IST
June 29, 2024, 7:19 AM IST
What counts as work today? What about the invisible labour that underlies tasks that can be seen and measured? There is a connective tissue between ourselves and our societies, which we fail to recognise. The…
June 29, 2024, 7:19 AM IST
June 21, 2024, 4:12 PM IST
For those of you who are playing with AI technologies in personal life or at work, you would have come across a word called “Fine tuning”. In the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence, most companies…
June 21, 2024, 4:12 PM IST
June 19, 2024, 11:20 PM IST
A version of this post appeared in VentureBeat Picture this: It’s 2002. You’re lucky enough to get your hands on a first-of-its-kind smartphone that lets you message anyone in the world. Life changing, right? In…
June 19, 2024, 11:20 PM IST
June 17, 2024, 11:49 AM IST
The software industry is on the cusp of a revolution, thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). While AI’s potential is widely recognized, its impact on software business models is still largely untapped. Traditionally, software has focused…
June 17, 2024, 11:49 AM IST
June 14, 2024, 6:00 AM IST
Trai’s proposal to levy a charge on phone numbers it allocates to telecom companies should go through. Pointing out that phone numbers are an “exceedingly valuable public resource which is not infinite”, the regulator is…
June 14, 2024, 6:00 AM IST
June 14, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
React has been holding its forte as the front-end view framework of choice. This is evident from its popularity in terms of the downloads it has on the NPM registry. Prior to React, AngularJS was…
June 14, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
June 10, 2024, 11:26 PM IST
This column did not post an article last week for the first time since 15 November last year. I would have loved a no-week-missed year and was working towards that. I was glad to watch…
June 10, 2024, 11:26 PM IST
June 8, 2024, 1:16 PM IST
There has been growing speculation, fueled by some high-profile individuals, that AI’s rapid development could lead to catastrophic scenarios, even posing an existential threat. The motivations of those sounding the alarm on AI’s potential threats…
June 8, 2024, 1:16 PM IST
June 3, 2024, 4:27 PM IST
In the digital age, as we become increasingly reliant on technology, tech support scams have emerged as a pervasive threat. These scams exploit our dependence on computers and smartphones, tricking unsuspecting users into parting with…
June 3, 2024, 4:27 PM IST
June 1, 2024, 2:40 PM IST
This week, I experimented with building a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) image classification model. I wanted to give GitHub Copilot a try. GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that helps with code completions. One…
June 1, 2024, 2:40 PM IST
May 31, 2024, 2:16 PM IST
Throughout history, humanity has seen itself as the pinnacle of creation, a belief deeply ingrained in the collective ego of humanity. This sense of superiority is reflected in various historical beliefs: the idea that humans…
May 31, 2024, 2:16 PM IST
May 29, 2024, 4:42 PM IST
Obedient, helpful, obliging, caring, patient, subservient…we are not talking about women but AI assistants that pretend to be female and are always ready with information and desired action with just a click or a blunt…
May 29, 2024, 4:42 PM IST
May 29, 2024, 4:28 PM IST
In February 2023, we were working with a market research analytics company to help them automatically summarise voice-based user conversations from the focus group discussions. Although the OpenAI’s ChatGPT LLM model had been released three…
May 29, 2024, 4:28 PM IST
May 27, 2024, 4:39 PM IST
In the realm of modern finance, the symbiotic relationship between data and rationality, empowered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), has become paramount for informed decision-making and analysis. As the volume of data…
May 27, 2024, 4:39 PM IST
May 25, 2024, 1:54 PM IST
Learning generative AI is not the first step of learning generative AI. Using LLMs does not teach generative AI either. Most data scientists build LLM-based applications. Such applications leverage the power of LLMs in interpreting…
May 25, 2024, 1:54 PM IST
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