Abhishek Rai

While Machine Learning has entered our home and offices, the algorithms are still far away from having the human like capabilities. The reason has been evident but yet proves difficult to solve, because we do not yet understand completely how our brain works and hence to artificially mimic it in machines is impossible. Yann LeCunn, […] More

Google AI and Deepmind has introduced a new “Deep Planning” network called PlaNet. It is an AI agent which learns the world model using only images as inputs. PlaNet works on what is called ‘latent dynamics’ model, where the information of the input images are encoded as ‘hidden states’ or ‘latent states’ and then these […] More

Niti Aayog has announced that India would use AI healthcare, agriculture, education, smart cities and smart mobility. The government recently announced the creation of apex body for AI research, National Centre on Artificial Intelligence. While the ‘intent’ is laudable, there are some crucial questions which demand greater introspection, if India has to come in the […] More

While the ramifications of ‘fake news’ have been more than evident in not so distant past, the combination of man and machine could take things to a different level altogether. In such context, it is essential to understand on a high level, how a machine generates fake news; while the ‘human’ form is something which […] More

For Chinese parents, after English, AI is the surest path to prosperity. More

Surprisingly, most product innovations can come from just asking the simple question, that what’s the one thing which the product is supposed to do precisely right? What would be an ideal alarm clock? This is almost 2020, but alarm clocks still ‘scares’ rather than ‘wakes’. No more, as Google and Lenovo have jointly together developed […] More

“Generative Adversarial Network” (GAN) algorithm at work. More

Online shopping sites track prices of the competitors and an integral part of the price setting algorithms is the competitor’s price. Over a period time these self-learning price algorithms can get so smart that, they learn each other’s trade secret of setting price, on their own, without any human intervention. A team of researchers from […] More

For restaurants it is always a battle to be at the same spot on the sensory buds as their customers. Menus are changed once in a blue moon, while the taste buds are ever changing. If only restaurants are able to know what does the customer wants, all the time, they can tweak their offerings […] More

Amid concerns of job loss over AI and in order to address the same in a comprehensive manner, Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty were appointed to Trump’s American Workforce Policy Advisory Board (Trump has launched American AI Initiative). The board would formalise a strategy to revamp the American workforce for 21st […] More

Venture capitalists are often blamed for having ‘herd mentality’, but when you are managing someone else’s money, it is prudent to be safe rather than sorry. After all, being a VC is a job and no one likes to lose his job. And like in all spheres of humanity, where people are now demanding faster, […] More