Tech whispers

GenAI is the best thing that could happen to a marketer, but only if she is willing to grasp it and leverage its power to connect with the new customer emerging in this AI era. (Wall Street Journal)

The age of AI will yield a new customer who marketers must win over

3 min read . 05 Dec 2024

Companies are scrounging around for wind and solar power but the most noticeable action is around nuclear.

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

3 min read . 21 Nov 2024

AI agents have started proliferating, as thousands of startups amp up their agents built on top of Large Language Models (LLMs).

We have a new ‘species’ of our own making: Artificial intelligence agents

4 min read . 10 Oct 2024

The biggest obstacle is the availability of clean and reliable power for the training and inferencing needs of large language models.

Is artificial intelligence worth all the money and energy it’s guzzling?

3 min read . 26 Sep 2024

For every piece of software, you need to stress-test it by flinging a variety of inputs at it that may induce errors. (REUTERS)

What the Blue Screen of Death that froze the world taught us

3 min read . 12 Sep 2024

With GenAI, we will work with machines in the same collaborative, natural and human way that we work with a human co-worker. (AFP)

The magnificent seven ways in which AI can transform human life

4 min read . 29 Aug 2024

The Layer 2 comprises companies which make the LLMs that seem to do magical things for us. (iStockphoto)

Who’s making money from GenAI? Big Tech, consultants or data centres?

4 min read . 15 Aug 2024

Last week saw the biggest onslaught on Google’s monopoly yet, the launch of SearchGPT by OpenAI.

Faced with OpenAI’s SearchGPT, Google must resolve its own AI dilemma first

3 min read . 01 Aug 2024

Nvidia pivoted smartly when it realized that its chips could be workhorses for crypto mining after crypto exploded off the block about five years ago. (AFP)

Nvidia's graphic processing units have set off a gold rush of the AI age

4 min read . 18 Jul 2024

An analysis by two Harvard Kennedy School scholars estimated that political parties spent $50 million on authorized AI-generated content.

Deepfakes and Indian elections: A case of much ado about nothing

3 min read . 04 Jul 2024

Japan has created a large fund for Generative AI, domestic data centres and local chip production.

AI regulation: India can look to Japan for a balanced framework

3 min read . 20 Jun 2024

Researchers are using powerful AI technologies to generate blueprints for new proteins, ones that nature has not been able to do.

When AI weds molecular biology, miracle treatments are born

3 min read . 06 Jun 2024

On Monday, 13 May, OpenAI unveiled its new flagship product GPT4o. (AP)

The AI race: OpenAI and Google are showcasing advanced AI models

3 min read . 23 May 2024

A personalized chatbot based on a Large Language Model (LLM) can be your friend and shopping guide.

Watch out, AI and GenAI are transforming e-commerce from the ground up

3 min read . 09 May 2024

Jobs will not be directly hit, but many companies across the world will use AI and GenAI as a cover to retrench for efficiency.

Crystal ball review: AI has evolved only partly as predicted a quarter ago

3 min read . 12 Apr 2024

When you ask Perplexity’s ‘search’ bar a question, it hunts the web and uses AI to write a succinct summary of its findings and annotates the same with the sources it used for its answer.

AI is turning search engines into thought drivers in mutual rivalry

3 min read . 29 Mar 2024

With the sweeping democratization of computing that AI brings, potentially all eight billion of us become creators and builders, as instructing machines becomes a matter of speaking as we socially do.

We must learn to be more human in the age of artificial intelligence

3 min read . 15 Mar 2024

Its advanced data analysis capabilities can monitor election-related data in real-time, identifying any irregularities suggesting fraudulent activity.

There’s also a positive side of GenAI that can strengthen democracy

3 min read . 01 Mar 2024

AlphaFold cracked one of the hardest problems in medical science—predicting how a protein would fold.

Deep learning and neural networks have more to offer than their buzz suggests

4 min read . 05 Feb 2024

Apps are the universal user interface today, and they help us do a lot of stuff, but they are actually dumb and clunky—you need to tell them what to do, and it takes a while navigating through them.

AI could herald a new digital era as apps give way to voice agents

4 min read . 19 Jan 2024