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Grok and Entertainment

This chatbot’s outrageous replies can be attributed to the fact that it trains on countless X posts and is designed to mimic human expression with little moderation. AI chatbots now have personalities and Grok’s personality reflects Musk’s.

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Jaspreet Bindra

AI Goes for the Nuclear Option

Nuclear energy was the Artificial Intelligence of the 1960s. Much like AI today, it generated unprecedented excitement and hype across the world. Despite its known dangers – after all Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent – there was great optimism of how nuclear technology could change the world

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Jaspreet Bindra

Will the GenAI Trojan horse take Google’s search fortress apart?

I have written a lot on this before, but with recent moves by all the big tech players, it bears repetition: Every AI company is making a frontal attack on the so-far-impregnable fort

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Jaspreet Bindra

Yes, Nobel prizes for the work of AI pioneers deserve standing ovations

The word Artificial Intelligence was coined in 1955, with the original ‘fathers of AI’ Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and John McCarthy, convening the famous Dartmouth Conference in 1956. Another seminal moment was much later in 2017, when the paper ‘Attention Is All You Need’

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Jaspreet Bindra

We have a new ‘species’ of our own making: Artificial Intelligence agents

The AI world is abuzz with talk of agents – Not the ones which would have Ian Fleming or LeCarre fans in a tizzy, but autonomous AI-based software systems that perceive their environment, and your preferences to make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific goals without direct human intervention.

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Jaspreet Bindra

Who’s making money from GenAI? Big Tech, consultants or data centers?

There has been a lot of hullabaloo lately around the ‘collapse of the GenAI bubble’, primarily driven by the plummeting valuations of its bellwethers – Nvidia, Microsoft and other Big Techs riding atop the AI tiger. Intel stock plunged a vertiginous 25%, Microsoft and Google,

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Jaspreet Bindra

Faced with OpenAI’s SearchGPT, Google must resolve its own AI dilemma first

Arguably the best business model ever invented, other than the illegal one of growing and selling cocaine, is Search. Search is a $200bn plus market today, with gross margins estimated at 60%, growing at 10% every year to a $371bn by 2031.

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Jaspreet Bindra