NEW DELHI: To boost India’s surveillance system from space, the Cabinet Committee on Security led by PM Narendra Modi has quietly approved the phase III of the Space Based Surveillance (SBS-III) for launching a big bunch of spy satellites in low earth and geostationary orbits.“CCS on Monday gave the approval for launching 52 satellites under…
FILE – Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton speaks at the Collision Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File) British-Canadian professor Geoffrey Hinton was named one of the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 8, alongside John Hopfield, for their significant contributions to machine…
In a pivotal scene in Terminator Salvation, definitely not one of the better movies in the franchise, Christian Bale’s John Connors encounters a cyborg named Marcus with a cybernetic endoskeleton and a partially artificial cerebral cortex. Marcus insists he’s human but he’s not. You think you’re human? | Terminator Salvation [Open matte] It was a…
WASHINGTON: He once joked that the first word children in India utter is AI (mother in some Indian languages). He later wisecracked that AI means artificial intelligence for the world, but for him, it also meant American-Indian spirit. All kidding aside, PM Narendra Modi offered a full-spectrum embrace of the rapidly evolving field, saying it…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently convened a roundtable meeting with a group of top global tech CEOs, including Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nvidia‘s Jensen Huang. During the meeting, Huang lauded Modi as “an incredible student” for his keen interest in technology and AI.“I’ve enjoyed so many meetings with the Prime Minister. He’s such an…
Union minister Giriraj Singh. The government will soon roll out the much-awaited ‘INDIAsize’ initiative, which aims to establish standardized measurements designed to better suit the Indian body types, Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh said on Thursday. Presently, international and domestic brands available in India use measurements from the US or the UK for garments, having…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently commended DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis for his strategic negotiation tactics during Google’s acquisition of the AI research lab in 2014. Speaking at a South Park Commons event, Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook (now Meta) had been in talks to purchase DeepMind before Google secured the deal for over $500 million.“I did…
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates appeared on Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s latest podcast series “People by WTF.” Gates talked about a range of things during the podcast, including his relationship with India over the years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), capitalism versus socialism and more. Gates complimented Microsoft CEO while talking about the role of…
NEW DELHI: Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has advised that electronic voting machines (EVMs) should be eliminated as it is prone to “getting hacked” by humans of Artificial Intelligence (AI).“We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high,” wrote Musk on X, which he owns….
NEW DELHI: Addressing an outreach session of G7 Summit in Italy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that we need to strive towards a time of ‘green era‘ by making joint efforts.PM Modi was speaking at the summit on the invitation of Italian counterpart Georgia Meloni. He addressed a session on Artificial Intelligence, energy,…
