Tag: artificial intelligence

The AI Agent Technology Stack: Unpacking the Layers

Pooja Kashyap

AI agents are assisting people in making smarter choices, these tools are also helping in making tasks easier and enabling more personalized experiences across various domains. Their integration with external tools and APIs allows for real-time data analysis and automation of complex workflows. All this is possible because of a structured tech stack that integrates various layers, working in sync. The technology stack is like an entire football team, where goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and strikers are the various layers, each with a unique function.

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Is the AI Moat Gone? DeepSeek’s Low-Cost Model Challenges Tech Giants’ Dominance

Pooja Kashyap

Disruption is the new normal! – This happens to be the current motif of the AI landscape. DeepSeek has posed some serious challenges to the conventional approach to AI model development. It has proved, at least looking at the current scenario, that there is no need for massive capital expenditures on training the LLMs. In fact, the advancement of AI isn’t just about the amount of data you put in, but how well you can prompt it! This reminds of a talk when asked where an Indian startup with limited…

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Book Review: The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil

Pooja Kashyap

The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil talks about some exciting times ahead where our intelligence could evolve and go beyond almost everything. We might even transcend the current biological limitations and unlock our imagination in ways that feel unfathomable today. We might live in a world where the line between reality and VR will begin to blur, over all, we’d redefine the way we experience existence today. The book was first published in 2005.

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Interview: Prof. Dr. Michael Gerlich, Head of Foresight & Sustainability, SBS Swiss Business School, Switzerland

Pooja Kashyap

Recently, I read one research paper titled, “AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking” by Prof. Dr. Michael Gerlich. It is one of those research pieces, which I find extremely interesting and want to get into the depth and collect more insights. So, I tried to touch base with the research scientist and asked for his time for an email interview fortunately, he agreed. Research scientists, like Dr. Gerlich are my intellectual heroes who, despite their towering intellect and busy schedule, remain grounded…

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Cloud Messaging Platforms: Market Growth, Tech Trends and Leading Players

Pooja Kashyap

The trajectory of cloud-based messaging platforms is on an upward trend. As industries globally adopt advanced technologies, the demand for sophisticated applications is also increasing. As per Market Research Future, the Cloud Communication Platform market industry is projected to grow from USD 19.38 Billion in 2024 to USD 82.21 Billion by 2032, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.80% during the forecast period (2024 – 2032). While Mordor Intelligence estimates it to reach USD 40.13 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 18.44% during the forecast period…

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Book Review: The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose

Pooja Kashyap

The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics was written by Sir Roger Penrose. It was first published in 1989. I decided to pick this book because I thought it would give me the physicist’s perspective on what consciousness is. However, this book is much more than that. It’s about Turing machines, lambda calculus, the Mandelbrot set, Gödel’s theorem, cosmology, space-time singularities, quantum mechanics, neurology, AI, and, of course, consciousness. So, it’s a comprehensive package covering nearly “everything”.

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Book Review: The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman

Pooja Kashyap

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma is written by Mustafa Suleyman along with the researcher Michael Bhaskar in 2023.  Before reviewing the book, I’d like to mention Suleyman views that I came across in one of his interviews with The Guardian. The following lines cover almost everything that is mentioned in the book – The Coming Wave.

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Innovative SiPh Chip: Nanoscale Light Computing Breakthrough

Pooja Kashyap

Imagine a world where AI computations are not bound by the limitations of traditional power sources, that is, electricity but by the power of light waves. This is precisely the vision that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have brought to life with their innovative chip design. This innovation will not only enable the chip to fast-track the processing speed of computers but it will also lessen their energy consumption.

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Game-Changing Diode Enhances Quantum Computers and AI Performance: Quantum Leap

Pooja Kashyap

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have created a ground-breaking superconducting diode, which is a crucial element in electronic devices. This innovation has the potential to not only enhance the development of quantum computers for industrial applications but it will also boost the performance of artificial intelligence systems.

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Real-time Neural MPC: Deep Learning & Model Predictive Control Framework

Pooja Kashyap

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful technique that has gained popularity in recent years for controlling the movements of robotic agents. It involves using a model of the agent’s dynamics to predict its future behaviour. Followed by optimization of this behaviour to achieve a desired goal while also satisfying a set of constraints. MPC algorithms are capable of handling complex scenarios and can consider various factors such as the agent’s physical constraints, environmental conditions, and the dynamics of other objects in the environment. This makes MPC a popular choice…

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Book Review: The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan

Pooja Kashyap

The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan hovers around a hypothetical event that is, a time in the future when AI has totally eclipsed human intelligence. What then? There will be an exponential progress in technology that’ll create a future too difficult to predict.   Some experts, however, suggest that AI then can solve some of the world’s most pressing problems such as climate change, disease, and poverty. While others believe that the singularity could lead to the end of humanity as we know it.

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Light controlled Organic Microswimmers: Semi Autonomous Microrobots

Pooja Kashyap

The idea that nanobots flowing through our blood streams to deliver localised medication or to detect any tumour formation is no more a far-fetched dream. A group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), have developed microswimmers that can navigate through biological fluids, areas that are otherwise difficult to access. Steering is done through external form of light energy.

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