The Race For Artificial General Intelligence Intensifies
AGI can enable robots to understand, learn, and do intellectual activities in the same way as humans The race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is intensifying with OpenAI, supported by Microsoft, coming out with its newest version of an algorithm that can create life-like images based only on simple English description of the scene, and Google’s […]
VCs sound the alarm bells
An ominous ring of the past is sending shivers down corporate spines. Is it the end of good times? On an early October day in 2008, Sequoia Capital, the benchmark venture capital firm the world swears by, called an emergency meeting of its entrepreneurs, including Alfred Lin – a partner at Sequoia and a former […]
5 Main steps in the Data Science Life Cycle?
In the modern world, data is of very high importance. Many disciplines have developed around the study and processing of data with data science among them. Data is processed through various stages during its lifetime, starting from creation, testing, processing, and consumption to finally being reused. These stages can be anywhere from five to sixteen […]
The Great Back-To-Office Confusion
As employees forcefully push back Return-to-Office, the issue has opened a pandora’s box –raising more questions than answers about flexible and hybrid work models Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, recently announced employees can work from home forever. He calls the office an “anachronistic form” that is“from a pre-digital age.” Apple’s director of machine learning, Ian Goodfellow, […]
The Rupee on a Freefall
A weakening economy is the disease; falling rupee is a symptom The chart above is a graphic story of the Indian Rupee vs. the United States Dollar over the last five years. It, therefore, shouldn’t surprise anyone that the INR fell to an all-time low of Rs 77.4 to a U.S. Dollar a few days […]
Autonomous Cargo Ship
A fully autonomous AI-powered Japanese cargo ship is the “world’s first” to complete a 500-mile ocean trip It seems the most obvious place for autonomous navigation to happen – the wide-open oceans. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous vessels are making waves. In mid-May, the 750-ton Japanese cargo ship, Suzaka, became the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo […]
Embracing Uncertainty
Creating a flexible supply chain strategy for a fluid future The world has been in a constant state of uncertainty for decades, with only brief interludes of relative stability. The only thing organisations can do in such a perpetual state of flux is to be flexible in their strategy, and execution. The large goals would […]
Europe’s New AI Act & GDPR
The European Union is doing everything possible to create an ‘iron dome’ around its data to protect it from cyberattacks Geopolitics is driving technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), as the Russian President Vladimir Putin once said that the nation which leads in AI will rule the world. The European Union (EU), which is technology-dependent on […]
It Chats, It Draws – AI Gets Creative – Part II
Part II: Dall-E from OpenAI In their quest for increasingly complex AI applications, scientists are now mixing image with text recognition. In this second part, we explore Dall-E Google Deepmind’s Flamingo and OpenAI’s Dall-E are two recent developments in creative AI in which image identification and text interpretation algorithms have been merged to create multimodal […]
Starlink Creates A Business Model
The Ukraine war is a business case for Starlink’s low-earth-orbiting communication network The situation was becoming desperate for Ukrainian soldiers surrounded by Russian forces in the Azovstal factory in early May 2022. They called for help, not from their own military command, but from the US billionaire Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla. […]