Perhaps the best-known risk is embodied by the killer robots in the “Terminator” films—the idea that AI will turn against its human creators. The tale of the hubristic inventor who loses control of his own creation is centuries old. And in the modern era people are, observes Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist, “trained by Hollywood…
Zomato has stopped using AI-generated food images. Artists and several others have also come out against such images. While there might be a compelling case for AI-generated images in some instances, platforms have to ensure transparency. Mint explains: Why did Zomato ban AI food images? It was in response to customer complaints about artificial intelligence…
New Delhi: Sarvam and Adya.ai are two of India’s newest startups targeting the red-hot generative artificial intelligence market, but they are also among a new breed of ventures looking beyond large language models like ChatGPT. The reason: industry-specific applications are easier to monetise and help avoid competition with AI giants. For Sarvam, seeking to be…
As the world’s largest democracy, India navigates a complex landscape of diverse cultures and socioeconomic challenges. In this ever-evolving environment, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as more than just a technological breakthrough; it is a catalyst reshaping India’s trajectory. Generative AI (GenAI) is poised to significantly impact India’s economy. Projections suggest it could add a…
Harshil Mathur-led Indian payments gateway platform Razorpay has been included in the Forbes Cloud 100 list for 2024. This is the company’s third consecutive appearance on the Forbes list of the top 100 cloud-computing private companies in the world. The list was released on August 6, 2024. Razorpay remains the only Indian company featured on…
Innocuous news from China shouldn’t make anyone sit up, but any technological edge it gains over the West in the Cold War II that’s underway should. On Sunday, China test-flew a large unmanned aircraft—or drone— with a payload capacity of 2 tonnes. It’s just a cargo carrier, developed by the state-funded Sichuan Tengden Sci-Tech Innovation…
Billionaire Elon Musk revived a lawsuit against OpenAI, giving rise to the six-year-old dispute that started with a power struggle at the San Francisco-based start-up, reported the New York Times on Monday, August 5. The new lawsuit, filed on Monday in a Northern Californian federal court, claimed that OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam…
In our fast-paced lives, it’s hard to keep up with all the important news that happens throughout the week. But fear not, we have got you covered with our Weekly Tech Recap, where we take a look at the top events that made waves in the world of technology. In this week’s Tech Recap, Apple…
The internet provided not only the images, but also the resources for labelling them. Once search engines had delivered pictures of what they took to be dogs, cats, chairs or whatever, these images were inspected and annotated by humans recruited through Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service provided by Amazon which allows people to earn money…
In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Moore’s law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they got cheaper (more…
