Small businesses in India that use cloud-enabled technologies could unlock up to ₹1.6 trillion in annual productivity gains and support 45.9 million jobs across sectors like healthcare, education, and agriculture by 2030, representing 9% of total jobs in India, according to a new report by Accenture.
Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are a major driver of economic…
Earthquakes can be devastating. However, scientists are yet to develop reliable methods to predict when quakes will occur, which area they will impact, or how big (magnitude) they will be, despite multiple attempts to do so over the last few decades. That said, scientists have begun using machine-learning techniques for quake forecasting, mostly for the…
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI is changing the way we live, play, and work. Consider these figures. The global AI market size was valued at $136.55 billion in 2022 and projected to touch $1,811.75 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. India's AI market size touched $680.1 million in 2022,…
Earlier this month, NVIDIA and Reliance Industries announced a collaboration to develop India’s own large language model, which will be trained on diverse local languages and customized for various generative AI applications. NVIDIA is offering up access to the NVIDIA® GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, with exceptional performance and massive memory bandwidth, and NVIDIA DGX™ Cloud,…
What do you do when your foundations of reality are challenged? What do you do when you can’t spot fact from fiction? What do you do when you don’t know what’s real and what’s not? The rapid pace of development in artificial intelligence (AI) has shaken our perception of reality. We have gone from botchy…
Brains — marvelous mushy masses that hold the key to our uniqueness. Naturally, the emergence of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) has sparked a growing concern for neurorights, a movement that prioritizes individual liberties and psychological well-being over the blind and relentless pursuit of "ultimate happiness." Neurorights encompass the principles of cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental…
We like to think that we are in control of our purchase decisions. That we won’t just click any random recommendation. That we won’t end up buying something we never thought we needed.
The truth?
Free will is an illusion!
According to Apiumhub, around 80% of all customer interactions and touchpoints on e-commerce platforms are…
In 2018, Amazon opened its first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered store called Amazon Go. In this futuristic store, you can walk in, grab whatever you need, and "Just Walk Out"! The store charges the items to your card, and you receive the receipt within a few minutes. All credit to Artificial Intelligence – embedded AI, to…
A hype cycle, as Gartner defines it, is formed by the five key phases of a technology’s life cycle: a technology breakthrough that generates a lot of publicity, a peak of inflated expectations (think Justin Bieber pouring more than $1 million into NFTs), the trough of disillusionment (winter sets in as experiments or implementations fail…
Apparently, my job is in danger. And so is yours. We have all seen those social media posts and viral articles listing the different kinds of jobs that will be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI). From software professionals and content writers to seasoned strategy consultants — the sword seems to be hanging on every sort…