TECHNOLOGY
Scarlett Johansson vs Sam Altman and the ChatGPT Chatbot Sky
The Sky chatbot’s voice brings Deep Fake concerns to the fore. Within a few years, GenAI-created Deep Fakes will not just influence elections in countries but could cause a collapse of the global financial system
BUSINESS
AI, UBI, and UC: How Tech Titans see the future panning out for humans
Prominent AI proponents are championing an old idea in economics
BUSINESS
The importance of ChatGPT 4o
For OpenAI, it was important to show potential enterprise clients as well as potential funders that it was still in the lead in the GenAI race
BUSINESS
Musk, Tesla, India and China
A Tesla investment announcement for India would have been exceedingly welcome but in the larger scheme of things, Musk choosing to rush to China while cancelling a long-planned trip to India is perhaps less important than most people realise
BUSINESS
News Media vs Big Tech: Another battlefront opens up
California’s proposed act to get Big Tech to pay news publishers raises familiar arguments, but eventually if human-generated news gets funding it will be for the greater good
BUSINESS
A bait for Tesla
But will bringing in Musk’s electric car company solve India’s manufacturing problem?
BUSINESS
The three kings of AI
Three companies in very different parts of the world have emerged as the largest gainers of the current AI boom. Three companies in very different parts of the world have emerged as the largest gainers of the current AI boom
BUSINESS
Google vs Indian Apps: Avoid knee-jerk reactions
The government’s job is to formulate robust policies and laws and ensure they are adhered to. In a commercial dispute, the courts are best equipped to sort them out
BUSINESS
Musk vs Altman and the OpenAI soap opera
The case may not be significant – but it will throw more light on why what started as a non-profit mission to democratise AI turned into just another profit-seeking business
BUSINESS
Much ado about Sora
The text-to-video generator by OpenAI is just a distraction from the really important issues that need attention, such as the thousands of cases that are now being fought in the US and the EU over the fact that GenerativeAI companies had trained all their wonderful models on content created by media organisations and independent artists and writers without taking any permission or paying them
BUSINESS
Do PLI schemes work best standalone or as part of a comprehensive manufacturing strategy?
The government needs to articulate its manufacturing strategy far more clearly than it has so far – and then the PLI schemes can be better designed
BUSINESS
The full Budget in July must flesh out the Rs 1 lakh crore lending scheme for sunrise sectors
Who will actually give these loans? What are the sunrise sectors? What kind of entrepreneurs and companies will qualify?
BUSINESS
Is your Artificial Intelligence program racist?
AI researchers have complained that almost all models they tried out exhibited prominent racial and gender biases
BUSINESS
India must get basics right as Generative AI grows
The government of India’s skilling programmes have invariably focused on the low end of the technical skills spectrum
WORLD
Copout at COP28: Why a consensus in phasing out 'dirty' fuels is so difficult
While no country disagrees with the danger of climate change, the problem is how one achieves the goal given the very different concerns, interests, and stages of economic development
WORLD
EU’s laws for AI could be too late even if not too little
Every significant Silicon Valley player in the AI race – Google, Meta, Anthropic, and numerous others – is trying to beat OpenAI in the General AI race. By the time the EU law comes into force, it may be too late
BUSINESS
OpenAI and the race for Superintelligence
News suggests that a breakthrough in an OpenAI project called Q* (pronounced Q star) may lead to development of SuperIntelligence – and also Artificial General Intelligence. These hint at a breakthrough that will lead to a vastly more intelligent and powerful AI than the Generative AI models like ChatGPT4 or even ChatGPT5
BUSINESS
L’Affaire OpenAI: A tale of differing visions of AI
What has become increasingly clear is that this fight was not about taking control of the highly valued OpenAI, as much as a clash of visions on the future of the organisation and the future of artificial intelligence itself
BUSINESS
COP 28: The difficulties in keeping promises on climate action
The first global stocktake on climate action is likely to show that the Paris Agreement promises have been missed by most— if not all — countries
BUSINESS
AI summits are necessary, but the beast may no longer be controllable
Like all technology, there is a good and a bad side to AI. But regulating it may be impossible
BUSINESS
Narayana Murthy’s call for 70-hour workweek: Research shows longer hours unproductive
The point of discussion should be not just the total number of hours worked in a week, but how India’s competitiveness in the global marketplace can improve if some of the factors that lower productivity are removed
BUSINESS
Can India become the backend hub for Generative AI work?
Historically, the number of jobs created because of any new technology development is always lower than the number of jobs that become redundant and Generative AI won’t be different
BUSINESS
The Lithium dilemma
Lithium prices, once expected to rise and rise as demand for Li-ion batteries increases, have crashed not only due to the discovery of new reserves, but also because of the recognition that mining it is far from environment-friendly
BUSINESS
How India’s AI research could gain from the US-China tech war
India can, if it gets its act right, be the big buyer of AI chips that can no longer be sold to China or to Chinese firms, at least legally
