Some enterprises remain sceptical about the returns on artificial intelligence (AI) deployment. However, a recent report from Bain & Company has cited encouraging gains. Mint explains the state of GenAI adoption among companies today. Is GenAI moving beyond experiments? The early movers are going beyond proof of concept (PoC) and trials to deploy GenAI across … Read more
India’s Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, at the third Kautilya Economic Conclave, Delhi, said that artificial intelligence, along with factors like demographics and connectivity, will change the global order, according to mutiple media reports. “Demographic, connectivity and AI will change the global order,” said the external affairs minister at the economic conclave. Jaishankar also … Read more
Facebook owner Meta on Friday unveiled a new AI model called Movie Gen that can produce realistic-looking videos using only text prompts. Meta’s announcement comes almost 6 months after OpenAI took the AI industry by storm by unveiling its text-to-video generator, Sora. Movie Gen can also generate background music and sound effects that are synchronised … Read more
Microsoft Corp. Inc. wants to partner with the Indian government and other stakeholders as co-pilots to accelerate AI adoption, said Sundar Srinivasan, vice-president of AI & search, Microsoft India Development Centre, during a panel discussion at the Mint India@2047 Summit on Friday. “India has a unique asset in terms of, I think, the cultural … Read more
The fund house is betting big on exchange traded funds (ETF) and believes it has the strongest back-end to be the best in this space. In an interview with Mint, Swarup Mohanty, vice chairman & CEO, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India) discussed upcoming RBI policy, GDP growth, changing risk profile of investors, plans in GIFT … Read more
A recent report from Elastic, a Search Analytics firm, indicates that 81 per cent of Indian organizations have adopted Generative AI (GenAI), positioning India as a leader in this technological domain. The study anticipates an increase in investments and budget allocations for AI initiatives in the coming years. Reportedly, IT service providers are increasingly integrating … Read more
When historians in future centuries compile the complete annals of humankind, their output will be divided into two tomes. The first will cover the hundreds of thousands of years during which humans have been earth’s highest form of intelligence. It will recount how souped-up apes came up with stone tools, writing, sliced bread, nuclear weapons, … Read more
The Dartmouth meeting did not mark the beginning of scientific inquiry into machines which could think like people. Alan Turing, for whom the Turing prize is named, wondered about it; so did John von Neumann, an inspiration to McCarthy. By 1956 there were already a number of approaches to the issue; historians think one of … Read more
Large language models have a keen appetite for electricity. The energy used to train OpenAI’s gpt-4 model could have powered 50 American homes for a century. And as models get bigger, costs rise rapidly. By one estimate, today’s biggest models cost $100m to train; the next generation could cost $1bn, and the following one $10bn. … Read more
LLMs are built using a technique called deep learning, in which a network of billions of neurons, simulated in software and modelled on the structure of the human brain, is exposed to trillions of examples of something to discover inherent patterns. Trained on text strings, LLMs can hold conversations, generate text in a variety of … Read more