AI/Machine Learning, Bharat and Bhartiya IT Industry

Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 04 May 2023 11:25

Crayon. Try that also, @sanman gaaru.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 06 May 2023 09:48

Very, very interesting take from Google:

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-w ... nd-neither

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 06 May 2023 20:50

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 07 May 2023 13:06

Robotics for Pizzerias and Restaurants

As AI takes off, will it radically boost the robotics and low-level service industries?

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 15 May 2023 08:43

This kind of research is eye-opening:

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 15 May 2023 11:16

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 16 May 2023 13:33

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 16 May 2023 17:03

AI could revolutionize medicine, including cancer diagnosis and treatment:

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 16 May 2023 18:08

A very deep conceptual discussion around contemporary AI (mostly based on ChatGPT) between Psychologist and philosopher Jordan Peterson and Brian Roemmele, AI Eigineer and thinker :

(Recommend you listen to this on a long walk.)

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 19 May 2023 22:40

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 21 May 2023 23:08

nash · Post by **nash** » 27 May 2023 09:48

Does anyone here has taken the below course:

https://www.diat.ac.in/wp-content/uploa ... re-B05.pdf

is it worth of spending 29K on it?

S_Madhukar · Post by **S_Madhukar** » 28 May 2023 14:39

I would recommend to learn ML anything from Andrew Ng’s stable of companies such as Coursera, FourthBrain, DeepLearning.ai etc. otherwise there is a lot on udemy and YouTube. I feel this field moves so fast any degree there is almost obsolete in 5 years…

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 28 May 2023 18:09

S_Madhukar wrote:I would recommend to learn ML anything from Andrew Ng’s stable of companies such as Coursera, FourthBrain, DeepLearning.ai etc. otherwise there is a lot on udemy and YouTube. I feel this field moves so fast any degree there is almost obsolete in 5 years…

You need to be able to do a lot of self-teaching/self-learning on your own too. As you say, there are so many new things going on, and so many people are now piling into the field that the activity will only increase.

It's also important to note which follow-on industries will be benefiting from AI: robotics, medicine & bioinformatics, etc

I'd imagine that farming in the developed world will see huge productivity increases due to agricultural robotics. Farming/agriculture will be an early winner on the robotics front, since farms are very safe/static environments for robots to operate in, as contrasted with trying to put self-driving cars on busy congested streets.

Medical bioinformatics impact will be huge. Our bodies are built on code, as with all living things. DNA is the ultimate treasure trove of data for AI to analyze. From there will come the ability to cure any and all kinds of medical ailments, increasing human lifespan. We'll even be able to much more effectively harness biology for industrial uses.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 29 May 2023 03:18

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang speaks at graduating ceremony at National Taiwan University. Hear his words:

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 04 Jun 2023 02:23

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 05 Jun 2023 07:12

Speaking of artificially manufactured intelligence, here comes the author of Escape Velocity to weigh in:

The other guest's accent didn't sound Indian (better not to invite undesirables), so I looked him up and it turns out he's originally from Iran (I guess he's the best Pitroda could come up with)

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 13 Jun 2023 14:05

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 17 Jun 2023 01:01

The Indo-US deals being signed on Modi's current visit to Washington includes cooperation on various cutting-edge areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, etc.

The Artificial Intelligence part seems fairly straightforward (like the cartoon I just posted above)
Meanwhile, in the Physics thread, I was complaining about the "Quantum" buzzword, wanting to know whether what the substance of it was, or whether it was all just hype. I guess I was pretty ignorant, because some quick Googling shows that this field has been rapidly moving beyond the blackboard and mere science papers, into the real world of practical application and usage, even while the hardware for it is still being developed.

Not only is Quantum Computing rapidly increasing in high-end problem-solving, but it's even now being adapted to AI (ie. Machine Learning)

Here's a really nice primer on Quantum Machine Learning

https://blog.paperspace.com/beginners-g ... -learning/

Jaspreet · Post by **Jaspreet** » 22 Jun 2023 23:39

Sanman,
Are you working in this field(AI) fulltime?

(Sorry couldn't send a DM, there was no option)

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 23 Jun 2023 03:41

Jaspreet wrote:Sanman,
Are you working in this field(AI) fulltime?

(Sorry couldn't send a DM, there was no option)

Yes, I'm in this field, and like it a lot. It's full of potential. For years now, people have been saying it's "the new electricity" -- that's how important and value-adding it is.

Right now, we're at the dawn of it - just like the dawn of the computing era. But you can recall that at the dawn of the computing era, our computer hardware was far more primitive than it is today. Back then it was done with old-fashioned vacuum tubes, and not modern transistors. Likewise, in the future we'll look back at today's transistors in the dawn of the AI era, and compare them to the primitive vacuum tubes used at the dawn of the computing era. Quantum computing with Qubits is far better suited to high-end Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning than today's transistors are.
At the low end, transistors can outperform quantum computing devices, because the latter are somewhat unreliable and susceptible to noise. But at the high end, quantum devices can easily outperform transistors by ever wider margins, as computing problems get more complex. This is known as the Quantum Advantage.

chaitanya · Post by **chaitanya** » 23 Jun 2023 07:04

Hi Sanman,

Do you know what problems in machine learning have a quantum advantage?

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 23 Jun 2023 11:42

chaitanya wrote:Hi Sanman,

Do you know what problems in machine learning have a quantum advantage?

Cryptography, factorization, optimization, high-end simulation, machine learning, pattern recognition.

Jaspreet · Post by **Jaspreet** » 23 Jun 2023 17:10

Sanman,
Thank you for your response. Very informative.

When I studied AI (which was like 65 million years ago), the approach to tackling AI problems was very different. Since then there has been an explosion of knowledge, even though, as you say, it's still in its infancy. It's quite exciting.

Here's my little contribution to this thread, a talk by my valued class-mate, Dr. Raghav Vadhera:
https://soundcloud.com/emerjairesearch/ ... ilities-in

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 23 Jun 2023 17:39

Jaspreet wrote:Sanman,
Thank you for your response. Very informative.

When I studied AI (which was like 65 million years ago), the approach to tackling AI problems was very different. Since then there has been an explosion of knowledge, even though, as you say, it's still in its infancy. It's quite exciting.

Here's my little contribution to this thread, a talk by my valued class-mate, Dr. Raghav Vadhera:
https://soundcloud.com/emerjairesearch/ ... ilities-in

Machine Learning is the application of statistics to data to extract inferences -- that's what is currently being touted as "Artificial Intelligence"

It's precisely because the size of data sets is growing, along with the ability to store and analyze them (ie. scaling up of storage and processing power), that machine learning is becoming increasingly useful.

It's a good way to go these days, because it's very value-adding, especially in an increasingly data-driven world. I'm only in a contract job at a small company right now, but I see the scope for jobs will continue to go up as more applications are developed.

bala · Post by **bala** » 25 Jun 2023 02:15

Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar – From Banning PUBG To Web 3 & AI on a PODCast show..

// He talks about the India stack (how PM Modiji wanted direct payment to bank account) and other topics. 30 nations are interested in the India Stack technology. One area was the funding issue. I think GOI needs to provide a 10x budget for all R&D that includes ISRO, DRDO, BARC, Supercomputing, GTRE, etc. We are still running on shoe string budgets in many areas. Many ex-patriots want to come back and contribute back to India. Getting to #1 economy of the world requires investments now. India is becoming a leading nation right before our eyes.

Cyrano · Post by **Cyrano** » 28 Jun 2023 00:00

+108 Bala saar!

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 10 Jul 2023 19:13

Foxconn deal dead.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 11 Jul 2023 06:13

RoyG wrote: ↑10 Jul 2023 19:13 Foxconn deal dead.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 12 Jul 2023 02:33

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Kanoji · Post by **Kanoji** » 30 Jul 2023 14:41

Indian Television Sees Spurt Of AI-Driven Robotic News Anchors In Multiple Language Channels

https://swarajyamag.com/technology/indi ... e-channels

RoyG · Post by **RoyG** » 02 Aug 2023 03:25

Inside SCL.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 14 Aug 2023 23:43

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Garooda · Post by **Garooda** » 31 Oct 2023 20:15

Not sure if this was posted but a good start for some of the startups and AI based firms in India.

https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Di ... -collabor/

The two Indian startups, 114AI, an artificial intelligence firm that builds dual-use software for domain awareness, and 3rd ITECH, India's sole image sensor company, will work in partnership with AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate. The CRADA will foster collaborative efforts in cutting-edge technologies, marking a significant milestone in advancing innovation in Earth observation sensors and space domain awareness.

sanman · Post by **sanman** » 13 Nov 2023 11:01