The Indian government has stated that artificial intelligence (AI) in its current form is primarily task-oriented and not capable of dealing with situations that require logic and reasoning. Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that he does not see any threat of job loss from AI. Speaking at a press conference highlighting initiatives taken by
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If Facebook made a virtual reality headset that scanned your living room and your eyeballs, would you wear it? If Amazon.com made a journaling app that prompted you to give behavioral data, would you use it? If Google made a watch that asked you to log the peaks and troughs of your moods to build
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to discuss the need for global regulation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Altman, who is on a six-nation tour including Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, and South Korea, stated that during the discussion they talked about the opportunities in
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a popular chatbot that is trained on the vast, imperfect glory of the public internet. However, this has resulted in ChatGPT making numerous embarrassing mistakes. For instance, a lawyer who recently used the chatbot to write his court brief realized he’d blundered when it cited six nonexistent cases. To improve its accuracy,
Paytm, India’s leading payments and financial services company, has announced its business operating performance for the two months ending May 2023. The company’s consumer engagement on the Paytm Super App continues to see a robust expansion of its consumer base, with an average Monthly Transacting Users (MTU) of 9.2 crore, registering a growth of 24
Kaspersky, a cybersecurity and anti-virus firm, has discovered a new cyberattack threat that targets iPhone models running older versions of iOS via the iMessage application. The company found the malware when it was monitoring its own Wi-Fi network for mobile devices. The virus infects the phone via a received iMessage containing a malicious attachment. The
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has directed telecom service providers to create a unified digital platform within two months to seek, maintain, and revoke customers’ consent for promotional calls and messages. The move comes as an effort to tackle the problem of pesky calls and SMS messages that have been a nuisance for
Recent statistics provided by Meta show the action taken by Facebook and Instagram in response to user complaints in India. According to the report, Facebook took action on 41 percent of user complaints, while Instagram took action on over 54 percent of grievances raised by users in April 2023. The report provides category-wise information, revealing
YouTube has announced that it will stop removing content that may spread false claims related to the US presidential elections in 2020 and before. The move is part of the platform’s misinformation policy for elections, which will take effect immediately. YouTube stated that while removing such content helps curb some misinformation, it might also have
US-based security researchers have reported that hackers have stolen data from the systems of certain users of the file transfer tool, MOVEit Transfer. This comes one day after the software maker, Progress Software Corp, announced that a security vulnerability had been discovered in its software that could lead to unauthorised access into users’ systems. MOVEit