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Source: Live Mint In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an online education service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. A bigger problem for the company, though, is artificial intelligence (AI). Its customers are mostly students who want help answering their…
Source: Live Mint Daksh Gupta, CEO and co-founder of Greptile, a Y-Combinator-backed AI start-up based in San Francisco, shot to fame recently for a long post he wrote on the ‘X’ platform where he wrote about his start-up’s culture of long working hours. He mentioned that typical workdays start at 9 am and end at…
Source: Live Mint The twin, developed in just a month in partnership with Microsoft and a Paris-based digital preservation company, Iconem, will provide millions worldwide with an immersive virtual experience of the Basilica. While Iconem used multiple devices,including drones, 3D cameras, and lasers to capture more than 400,000 high-resolution images of the Basilica, the data…
Source: Live Mint Chinese courts, meanwhile, are developing an AI system comprising “non-human judges”, designed to offer comprehensive support, enhancing legal services and reinforcing justice across “smart courts” by next year. Closer home, former chief justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, just days before his retirement on 11 November, tested the acumen of an AI “lawyer”…
Source: Live Mint IN JULY last year Henry Kissinger travelled to Beijing for the final time before his death. Among the messages he delivered to China’s ruler, Xi Jinping, was a warning about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Since then American tech bosses and ex-government officials have quietly met their Chinese counterparts in…
Source: Live Mint Open-source software—in which a developer releases the source code for a product and allows anyone else to reuse and remix it to their liking—is at the foundation of Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and all four of the largest web browsers. The encryption of a WhatsApp chat, the compression of a Spotify stream…
Source: Live Mint Artificial intelligence (AI) chipmaker Nvidia Corp will soon be part of Wall Street’s oldest three main equity benchmark indices, displacing no less than Silicopn Valley giant Intel, Bloomberg reported. Nvidia, which is “at heart of the artificial intelligence boom”, will replace rival Intel Corp. in the 128-year-old Dow Jones Industrial Average from…
Source: Live Mint Rituals aren’t just about God, but about people’s relations with each other. Everyday life depends on ritual performances such as being polite, dressing appropriately, following proper procedure and observing the law. The particulars vary, often mightily, across time, space and societies. But they are the foundation of all formal and informal institutions,…
Source: Live Mint Mint is thrilled to introduce the All About AI Tech4Good Awards, sponsored by Salesforce, that recognizes the most impactful and creative uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in driving impact and social good. This unique initiative will conclude with a grand awards night in Mumbai, uniting industry leaders, technologists, and AI experts to discuss how…
Source: Live Mint Jensen Huang, chief executive officer (CEO) of artificial intelligence (AI) giant Nvidia, has revealed that six years ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to address his cabinet on AI, said a report by India Today. “About 6 years ago, when I first met Modi Ji, he asked me to meet…
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