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Our very first Generative AI Community kick-off session at nasscom is here! Thanks to Ramkumar Narayanan and Atul Batra who continue to lead from the front and foster a sense of community – last evening brought in founders, industry experts, VCs and startups to engage in dialogue and network in this exciting space. The Generative …
IQ doesn’t drop based on geography. But access could. My biggest fear thence, is the lack of equitable distribution of benefits and access to AI, especially in developing countries that tend to play catch up – as we move towards AGI. Technology inherently isn’t good or bad. It is dependent on how we intend for …
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#Day12/30 #30DaysofGenerativeAI 🖐🖐 “Will open-source LLMs with decentralized training be competitive with closed-source and centralized LLMs?” Why is this question from Naval Ravikant an important one to answer ❓ ❓ It determines where the generative AI market will move – towards large LLM providers such as OpenAI or is there a market for smaller, decentralised LLMs …
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Spicy Topic – Should we let our children play and understand AI tools? Under parental guidance. In an article, “We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears’, an English teacher highlights this – “ChatGPT offers us an opportunity to address our fears, release our fixation on preventing …
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This is an AI generated audio translation + lip sync from English to Hindi. I don’t completely understand what I am saying but it is impressive how far we have come. While the syncing can be improved, whats more impressive is that it is from a Generative AI for Media startup incubated right here in …
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How do you find leaders you want to work with? A rule of thumb a mentor once told me – ‘Would they treat you the same based irrespective of where you sit in the hierarchy?’ If your title dictates whether you get heard, or not, then that can be a red flag. You can say …
Keeping up with AI, Red Queen and the Illusion of progress The faster you run, the more the world moves with you and the less you make progress. This is an increasingly influential idea in evolution, one that recurs across this book Red Queen : Sex and the evolution of Human Nature And I have been …
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What concerns you most about AI? Yes, there are fears around the AI prevalence, downsides and impact to jobs While that is an understandable concerns, what worries me the most is this – free markets don’t prioritise to reduce inequity, by default. “….market forces won’t naturally produce AI products and services that help the poorest. …
#Day10/30 #30DaysofGenerativeAI Hot on the heels of GPT4, Runway launches Gen2 – text prompts to video capabilities. Gen 2 is a multi-modal AI system that can generate novel videos with text, images, or video clips. Essentially, ‘If you can say it, you can see it’ What does it allow you to do? It allows capabilities …
Career pivots and How to make them happen? We oft get questions around how to make career transitions From a program to a product manager. Or a software engineer to a data scientist. A long while ago, a technical engineer reached out expressing his interest in becoming a data scientist. Long story short, after 8 …
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