AI boom is dream and nightmare for workers in India, global South

AI boom is dream and nightmare for workers in India, global South

Dinesh Raj, who lives in Salem, Tamil Nadu, treasures his account on microwork website Amazon Mechanical Turk, even if competition for data annotation tasks on the crowdsourced platform is high, and the pay is low. The 30-year-old, who has an engineering degree, has struggled to find a well-paid job, and relies on the platform for […]

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New jobs open up in IT sector in Kerala, but threat of layoffs looms too

New jobs open up in IT sector in Kerala, but threat of layoffs looms too

The post-COVID-19 period has been a fruitful one for the IT sector in Kerala, as far as hirings are concerned, with a considerable number of opportunities opening up for freshers and lateral entries. However, of late, the news of massive layoffs by tech giants in the Silicon Valley, as among some startups in India, has […]

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China says it sees the potential of ChatGPT-like technology

China says it sees the potential of ChatGPT-like technology

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China but the app is attracting huge interest in the country. | Photo Credit: Reuters China’s Ministry of Science and Technology said on Friday said it saw the potential of ChatGPT-like tech and would be pushing for the integration of artificial intelligence into Chinese society […]

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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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