Tech whispers

The European Union has adopted an approach similar to the much-vaunted Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) called the AI Act

AI needs a globally coordinated effort for its effective regulation

3 min read . 29 Sep 2023

Stack Overflow reports a drop in ChatGPT traffic, and the GPT4-infused Bing is still stuck with a minuscule 3% market share. (REUTERS)

We have unfair expectations to blame for ChatGPT’s let-down

4 min read . 15 Sep 2023

Less than a month thereon, it was not Twitter but Threads which seemed to be hanging by a thread.

Social networks aren’t social any longer, nor even networks really

4 min read . 31 Aug 2023

Sam Altman has a visionary view of how humans could be paid a universal basic income in an AI-driven economy but the retina-scan mechanism for that already exists in India. (REUTERS)

Altman’s Worldcoin idea is out to reinvent the Aadhaar wheel

4 min read . 04 Aug 2023

The Threads-Twitter battle promises to shape up as the second Tech Battle of the Year, along with Microsoft-backed ChatGPT versus Google’s Bard. (REUTERS)

Zuckerberg has a secret sauce in the Threads-Twitter cage fight

3 min read . 21 Jul 2023

A typical fabrication plant might use up to 19 million litres of water and 30-50 megawatts of peak power daily

Tech’s climate impact is scarier than any super-AI ‘terminator’

3 min read . 06 Jul 2023

Fear not extinction at the hands of artificial general intelligence

3 min read . 22 Jun 2023

Bluesky has much going for it as Twitter’s decentralized alter ego

3 min read . 12 May 2023

Photo: Reuters (REUTERS)

The AI dilemma: Our big risk is super AI in rogue human hands

4 min read . 28 Apr 2023

Google Inc. signage is displayed as people arrive for work at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Monday, April 4, 2011. Larry Page, co-founder of Google Inc., takes over as chief executive officer of the operator of the world's largest search engine today from Eric Schmidt who becomes chairman. Photographer: Tony Avelar/Bloomberg

The innovator’s dilemma facing Google may well have a solution

3 min read . 14 Apr 2023

The sentience debate in the era of generative AI is getting hotter

2 min read . 31 Mar 2023

Photo: AFP (AFP)

The evolution of platforms has spelt the descent of online tools

2 min read . 16 Mar 2023

The euphoria mustn’t overwhelm the ethical questions on AI

4 min read . 17 Feb 2023

Will ChatGPT replace Google as our go-to web search platform?

1 min read . 07 Feb 2023

Chip wars: Cold battles over tiny wafers could spark hot hostilities

3 min read . 02 Feb 2023

AI may aid creativity and productivity within our job roles and make us even better at what we do.

It’s not artificial intelligence but users of it who may take our jobs

3 min read . 23 Jan 2023

We have winnowed down the definition of technology to a very narrow set; in our minds, tech is about AI and robots and self-driving cars.

Technology has a bright future beyond the clutches of capitalism

4 min read . 06 Jan 2023

The total market capitalisation of crypto sector crashed from $3trn in Nov 2021 to below $1trn now.

2022's tech rumbles will be heard for a long time

4 min read . 09 Dec 2022

Edward Gibbon found four principal causes of the ruin of Rome. Photo: iStock

How social network empires are going the way of the Roman empire

4 min read . 26 Nov 2022

Perhaps Musk can still reboot Twitter. But its demise now seems a very real possibility. Photo: AFP

Five ways to resurrect Twitter

4 min read . 17 Nov 2022