Tech whispers

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

2 min read . 01:18 AM IST

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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

The decentralization trend arrived and brought work-for-anyone along with it. Photo: iStock

Moonlighting will overturn old models of work

4 min read . 28 Oct 2022

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

It is not a surprise that so many Big Tech CEOs grew up in India

3 min read . 14 Oct 2022

Public digital infrastructure, like Aadhaar and UPI, has e-united India.. Photo: Mint

Five things the tech sector crash got right in India

4 min read . 30 Sep 2022

Sanskrit largely follows Panini’s grammar. His Ashtadhyayi of 500 BCE has 3,976 rules governing spoken language. Photo: Mint

Is Sanskrit the best language to program computers and AI?

4 min read . 16 Sep 2022

A fascination with breathing life into AI creations can mislead us

3 min read . 01 Sep 2022

AlphaFold 2 has the potential to alter medical science the same way that antibiotics or vaccines did. Photo: HT

Why we aren’t wrong to be optimistic about technology

4 min read . 19 Aug 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

When a car rides into the metaverse

4 min read . 05 Aug 2022

Blockchains can cut both ways in their impact on global warming

3 min read . 21 Jul 2022

What does AI know about having a ball?

3 min read . 08 Jul 2022

Cryptos are dying; long live the blockchain

3 min read . 24 Jun 2022

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