On 6th March 2026, the Reserve Bank of India, released well-intentioned draft amendment directions for ‘Review of Framework of Limiting Customer Liability in Digital Transactions’. The Mint report on RBI’s draft is available here. A
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NOTE: I applied for a new Dedicated Electric Vehicle Mahavitran/MSEDCL connection after booking an EV and got the new connection in a fortnight —and before EV delivery! I am merely sharing my experience. This is
Continue ReadingUnintended Consequences of GenAI: Challenges & Opportunities.
Generative AI (GenAI) is one of the most revolutionary technologies in our times. Our collective journey of GenAI adoption will unleash significant system-level unintended consequences. There is significant attention devoted to the existential risk posed
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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
Continue ReadingGenAI: Pathways from Art to Science
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
Continue ReadingThe Age of Neural Network Technicians?
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
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