The next tech challenge is to prove you are a human: Srikanth Nadhamuni, Founder CTO, Aadhaar

The next tech challenge is to prove you are a human: Srikanth Nadhamuni, Founder CTO, Aadhaar

Srikanth Nadhamuni is the founder CTO of Aadhaar. He set up the technology centre for the development, design, and operations of the Aadhaar system. He is also the Managing Trustee of the eGovernments Foundation, which he co-founded with Nandan Nilekani in 2003, working on improving governance and public service delivery in Indian cities. He is […]

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DeepMind predicts arrival of Artificial General Intelligence by 2030, warns of an ‘existential crisis’ for humanity

DeepMind predicts arrival of Artificial General Intelligence by 2030, warns of an ‘existential crisis’ for humanity

DeepMind, a leading AI research organisation within Google that focuses on AI technology has hinted that Artificial General Intelligence, popularly referred to as AGI, could arrive by as early as 2030. In a 145-page document co-authored by DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, the authors have warned that AGI could do “severe harm” and shared some alarming […]

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Margazhi with an AI twist: What does Madrasana have up its sleeve this year for the music season?

Margazhi with an AI twist: What does Madrasana have up its sleeve this year for the music season?

Singer Abhishek Raghuram, and a cryptic AI-generated version of an image of artiste | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Try it with me once…just once. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.” I don’t know if Madrasana founder Mahesh Venkateswaran is convincing me or himself, but colour me intrigued. He goes on, as if he’s […]

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Big announcement in few weeks, says IT Minister Vaishnaw on conversational AI tool

Big announcement in few weeks, says IT Minister Vaishnaw on conversational AI tool

File photo of Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw. | Photo Credit: ANI IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on March 27 hinted at a “big announcement” in a few weeks in the context of conversational AI tools. To a specific question on whether India can build something equivalent to the conversational AI tool ChatGPT, the minister […]

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AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

AI and the future of work: will Artificial Intelligence affect the workforce?

Experts thought that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would first automate the menial tasks. Driving, grocery delivery, and the like. For eight straight years, Elon Musk has promised full self-driving capabilities in his Tesla cars. There has been significant progress towards this goal, mostly by companies other than Tesla. But sipping chai as an autopilot drives us […]

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‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

‘Copying is part of the process’: NFN Kalyan on AI and art

“AI in art represents a democratisation of process,” says No-First-Name Kalyan, a Miami-based artist. Besides investigating NFTs, he has recently started creating on Midjourney, and his AI experiments — especially a sci-fi ‘History of India’ series, where he envisions what would have happened to India if it had been occupied by aliens rather than the […]

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Meta develops AI translation system for a primarily spoken language

Meta develops AI translation system for a primarily spoken language

Meta has developed a new AI translator that can convert spoken languages like Hokkien into spoken English in an attempt to knock down language barriers. Hokkien, a dialect of southern Min Chinese, is a primarily spoken language and does not have a standard writing system, which makes building translation tools for it a huge challenge. […]

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Researchers are trying to teach a robot how to laugh to improve human-robot conversations

Researchers are trying to teach a robot how to laugh to improve human-robot conversations

Researchers at the University of Kyoto are trying to teach a robot how to laugh. The researchers developed an approach to building a “sense of humour” for the Japanese android Erica, which is described in a research article published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Robots cannot detect laughter or even laugh at a joke […]

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An AI-generated picture won an art prize. Artists aren’t happy.

An AI-generated picture won an art prize. Artists aren’t happy.

This year, the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition gave out prizes in all the usual categories: painting, quilting, sculpture. But one entrant, Jason M. Allen of Pueblo West, Colorado, didn’t make his entry with a brush or a lump of clay. He created it with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that turns lines of […]

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President Joe Biden’s curbs on chips to China part of broader effort

President Joe Biden’s curbs on chips to China part of broader effort

The U.S. notice to chipmakers could harm Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia’s business in the country The U.S. notice to chipmakers could harm Chinese firms’ ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia’s business in the country Chip designer Nvidia Corp. this […]

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