Open Sesame
Is an Open-Source business model viable? With the COVID-19 pandemic halting many businesses and even changing the organisational structure of many (especially nascent) firms, the use of open-source software has become a key tool in the architecture of many organisations. It is, however, a non-trivial challenge for many organisations that build said open-source platforms as […]
Big Data Big Problems
Corporate viability of Big Data is crucially dependent on certain problems being tackled head on Given its primacy established during the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate leaders of big data will surely be rethinking their business objectives, looking to improve data quality and cause a major turnaround of several big data projects in 2021. This is, however, […]
Less-than-One-Shot no more a Long Shot
Ground-breaking new AI technology set to completely revolutionise the way models are trained It is rather rare in the current landscape to find a viable advancement in artificial intelligence that is not based, at least in part, on machine learning. However, a recent research paper released by the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada may […]
Better Together: How Humans and AI Interact
COVID-19 upended a lot of things, and among those were artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms which were supposed to forecast the future. As it was a once in a century Black Swan event, the algos did not have past data to crunch to come up with predictions. It was then that humans and AI worked together […]
A Misplaced Notion
Study reveals that common perception about AI are mostly confused and incorrect – adding to social complexities around the technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still a grey area, as much for the industry as for society in general. While issues regarding privacy and ethics have been in news, other more subtle yet impactful areas have […]
A Phoenix named Demand
Data Science and Technology leading the Indian job market upturn The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic had, in its initial phases, disastrous consequences for the Indian economy – GDP growth rates had become negative (the worst contraction in decades), unemployment levels were reaching record highs and further investment prospects looked rather bleak with several thousands […]
Skill Gap Plagues AI Industry
AI adoption picks up in COVID-19, but skill gaps create low-code opportunities Survey after survey are pointing out the increasing enterprise adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML); 57% of companies say they currently are using or are experimenting with the technology. The latest survey by 451 Research, now a part of S&P […]
Algorithmic Hygiene → Trustworthy AI
Mitigation of biases crucial to AI longevity Unbeknownst to most of us, the myriad ways in which artificial intelligence has already seeped into our lives may come as a major surprise to many. The mass-scale digitisation of data along with the host of emerging technologies which use them has led to a major transformation in […]
A Framework for Tomorrow
The data architecture framework set up today will determine a firm’s success tomorrow –and how! In an age where most businesses are already neck-deep in the digital transformation process enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, success will be primarily determined by a firm’s ability to adapt – especially in the structure of the organisation’s logical and […]
The Digital Road to White House
Can technology predict the US election outcomes? The prediction of election results is a rather interesting exercise in the analysis of the sociopolitical makeup of a country. Over the several months leading up to the formal day of the election, pollsters take up the unenviable – and rather arduous task of placing thousands of voters […]