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Counting the Environmental Costs of AI

Ahead of the AI Action summit in Paris earlier this week, civil society groups raised the environmental costs of artificial intelligence.

▶11-Feb-2025

Adam Smith

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-III

Tech companies in a race for profit seek unbridled development of generative AI, unmindful of the potentially far-reaching economic, social and political fallout. The field is calling out for…

▶27-Nov-2023

Anurag Mehra

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-II

There is a maelstrom of biases, misinformation, surveillance and deepfake generation that is now associated with generative AI. It is these trends rather than esoteric fears of loss of autonomy that…

▶24-Nov-2023

Anurag Mehra

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence-I

A 3-part series explains the main features of the rapid growth of AI today, current research and issues in regulation. Part-I discusses the core idea of AI, the growth of 'generative' AI…

▶23-Nov-2023

Anurag Mehra

ChatGPT Interviewed: 'My Strengths and My Limits'

ChatGPT tells us in its own words of how it does what it does, its strengths, and also its inability to carry out deductive reasoning and make hypotheses. It says it can be an excellent supplement…

▶14-Feb-2023

Subhashis Banerjee

Broad and Shallow AI

Trained on our mega digital footprint, Large Language Models ‘imitate’ human behaviour and can provide ‘plausible’ completion of any text prompt. Some are optimistic about AI reaching general human…

▶12-Jan-2022

Subbarao Kambhampati

Essay