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Opinion | Can India Create An 'AI City'?
Current foundation models are filled with unseen risks, yet they are being beta-tested on billions without much consideration for safety.
- Umakant Soni
- Nov 12, 2024 12:30 pm IST
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Opinion | Being Human In The Age Of Intelligence
Being intelligent, or putting effort into being more intelligent, may not matter much, as an enormous amount of machine intelligence would be available on tap, helping us automate work that consumes almost 60-70% of our time today
- Umakant Soni
- Oct 12, 2024 16:52 pm IST
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Opinion | Should We Be Worried About Unemployable Human Bots?
What we really need to fear is not the flooding of cheap humanoids from China, but rather the massive numbers of "human bots" - humans raised and trained to master outdated exams in pursuit of paper degrees - who may be unemployable in the future.
- Umakant Soni
- Sep 18, 2024 11:17 am IST
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Opinion | Olympic Medals or Kota Factory? Time to Let Young Minds Choose
The Olympics are over, and India, with a population of 1.4 billion - with the largest number of youth in the world - has ended up with just six medals.
- Umakant Soni
- Aug 17, 2024 11:46 am IST
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Opinion | Is Sam Altman Wrong About India's AI Capabilities? Yes, And No
On June 7 last year, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was asked this question when he was in India: Can Indian entrepreneurs compete with OpenAI, or should they even try? His answer was a blunt and definitive "No".
- Umakant Soni
- Aug 01, 2024 14:44 pm IST
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Opinion | A Viksit Bharat Will Need Viksit, Intelligent Villages Too
Transforming both the ailing PSU and dormant villages with technology innovations of the "Viksit Village" will make the vision of Viksit Bharat real.
- Umakant Soni
- Jul 22, 2024 07:50 am IST
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Opinion | The Case For A $10-Billion Fund Of Funds to Propel Viksit Bharat Goal
The time to act is now, and the $10 billion fund of funds for deep technologies like AI and robotics is pivotal in unlocking Viksit India's vast potential. Delaying action risks this goal becoming an unattainable mirage within the next five years.
- Umakant Soni
- Jul 12, 2024 17:45 pm IST