Ashwini Vaishnav is an efficient example of a well-educated bureaucrat turned minister. This Wharton educated bureaucrat turned minister was at the Davos meet. There he was questioned if India could join the first bouquet of the AI ready countries, supposed to be the U. S. and China.
I liked his "layered" answer. In his opinion, the AI architecture comprises five layers — application, model, chip, infrastructure, and energy. He clarified in a strong way that India is real good at all these, especially "application", nuanced as per the business demands.
In my opinion, indeed important is this detailed explication. Why, so? Well, at that very Davos, Satya Nadela of the Microsoft, a seasoned businessman, was singing the dirge of the AI. In his opinion, if restricted only to tech companies, the AI would prove to be a bubble ready to burst any minute.
In his opinion, the AI must branch out to agriculture, and other such sectors, for instance. While M/S Gates, Musk and others are busy declaring that the AI would finish off within five years all possible "white collar" jobs, including medicine, the Nvidia honcho, Jensen Huang, is taking such 'nay-sayers' to task because, as per his viewpoint, they terrify not merely the general public, but the investors as well! In brief, as many power magnates, those many AI futures, not to forget its ever expanding versions!
Pratima@Hence the title of our blog which is a take on Edward Albee's brilliant play "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The play tears, rather rips, open the façade of the power-mongering university professorial couple, Martha and George, brilliantly enacted by the Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor couple in the film version.
Quote of the day: “An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in – not the world in which it started.” This is an anonymous quote. Yet it pins properly the responsibility of any invention, especially if much publicised.
Word of the day: serendipity Serendipity refers to the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Scientific (r)evolutionary discoveries and/or inventions cannot be a serendipitous act as they affect society in a huge way!
Let us learn grammar: Today ends the usage requisites of articles. Please remember that ordinal numbers require the definite article "the", while names of sports do not require any article. Let us look at an example or two. Cricket is the first preference of most Indians. As the second born child of his parents, he was much loved and was allowed to make a career in hockey. Chess is a difficult sports that tries your patience. It is absolutely fashionable currently to maintain that communication matters! Yet another passionately held belief is English can have as many avataars as many speakers there are. For sure! Yet for any ordinary communication, basic grammar has to be OKAY. Otherwise, communication itself would suffer. Similarly, it IS true that ex colonised countries can enjoy their own versions of English. Yet there has to be a semblance to the educated native speaker's English. Otherwise, it would be a Creole or a Pidgin, not English at all!!!
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