The Wright brothers patenting of their invention was arguably one of the reasons for the development of the aerospace industry. A quick search on Google Patents and a check on GPT4 suggests that Large Language
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TOWS is implementing SWOT (Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat) analysis in reverse. A central premise of this blog is: TOWS is either the implicit or explicit approach adopted worldwide by many software organizations attempting scale at
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For many practitioners (and not just research scientists) the most troubling part about Generative AI (GenAI) is the absence of a robust scientific framework for GenAI. This has been reported in the Computer Vision area
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We know that the steam engine was developed before the Law of Thermodynamics were discovered. Many will rightly say that in world of Data Science the artifact is ahead of the theory as famously said
Continue ReadingThe Pace of Innovation in AI is reaching an escape velocity and what it means…
For the purpose of this blog the term AI refers to a traditional text book (Russell & Norvig) definition of it applying to the combination of Computer Science+ Statistics + (Language/Vision/Robotics). In IT —compared to
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In 1969 Minsky and Papert showed that the perceptron could not replicate a simple XOR function. This marked the beginning of the first AI winter. Is ChatGPT and are other Large Language Models (not necessarily
Continue ReadingWhy is Finance the biggest spender on IT.
Finance businesses are almost always born digital! Background: Over more than half a century Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) or Finance (for short) has been the undisputed biggest spender on IT. A very superficial
Continue ReadingThe Priority Sector Lending Puzzle
Is India’s unique floor and trade system on the verge of being subverted? By regulations banks in India are required to make of 40% of their loans in the priority sector. The priority sector has
Continue ReadingWho is responsible for Generative AI: A first step…
If you draw like Leonarda da Vinci can you rightly say that your skills are like the great man. If you use Generative AI to paint like Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo Da Vinci combined
Continue ReadingChatGPT and the Turing Test. Does it really matter?
Whether a machine can exhibit intelligence of the kind humans do is a deeply philosophical question. More narrowly, the famous Turing Test— proposed in 1950— specifies an Imitation Game in a formal way. In this
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