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Mad Street Den: Building generalisable Artificial Intelligence architectures at scale
Nov 06, 2020

Mad Street Den: Building generalisable Artificial Intelligence architectures at scale

Retail is among the most ‘legacy’ industries there is today. Coupled with the fact that the consumer buying today is nothing like the industry out

Tracxn: Data intelligence platform for investments and corporate development
Nov 05, 2020

Tracxn: Data intelligence platform for investments and corporate development

India is ranked third globally in terms of venture capital funding, behind only the US and China. With the total year-on-year funding amount increasin

Streak AI Technologies: Democratising stock markets with retail intelligence software
Nov 03, 2020

Streak AI Technologies: Democratising stock markets with retail intelligence software

We are at the cusp of globalisation and digital connectivity, which has transformed how product building needs to be thought out.

Rethinking Decoupling: Interdependence, dependence, independence
Oct 20, 2020

Rethinking Decoupling: Interdependence, dependence, independence

Tensions between government and industry over encryption, vulnerabilities and privacy are now compounded by a geo-technological rupture between the wo

Digital Wise: How will we prepare ourselves for the future?
Oct 13, 2020

Digital Wise: How will we prepare ourselves for the future?

Whole brain function is required to support not only analysis functions — where we zoom in to see the detail — but also synthesis functions where

Bike-sharing’s new life in China after lockdown
Oct 09, 2020

Bike-sharing’s new life in China after lockdown

Because of the pandemic, shared vehicles are edging into the mainstream, slowly overtaking public transport and private cars as the favoured way of tr

What can artificial intelligence tell us about the scale of Covid-19 in China?
Oct 09, 2020

What can artificial intelligence tell us about the scale of Covid-19 in China?

How is the discrepancy between the Chinese government’s own words and the statistics it released is so pronounced? The answer to this question can b

Pie in the sky: The artificial ace
Aug 23, 2020

Pie in the sky: The artificial ace

A spectacular dogfight scoreline is tantalising, but still leaves a lot unsaid about the future of AI and autonomous warfare.

Lessons from the Ladakh crisis
Jun 23, 2020

Lessons from the Ladakh crisis

It has become apparent that there have been grave failures somewhere — but more likely in multiple places — in the Indian intelligence chain, as i

India and France: A joint step forward
May 27, 2020

India and France: A joint step forward

The signing of a Strategic Partnership in 1998 between France and India under President Jacques Chirac was the first step in a partnership that has gr

US to withdraw from Open Skies Treaty
May 25, 2020

US to withdraw from Open Skies Treaty

For the US, the OST is not particularly useful as an intelligence gathering tool, but the reality is that it was always intended as a confidence build

E-governance possibilities in India for the post-COVID-19 era
May 19, 2020

E-governance possibilities in India for the post-COVID-19 era

Every time the government uses an e-governance technology, it results in more efficiency, lesser costs, lesser manpower requirement and lesser physica

Three intelligence dictums recapitulated in the US’s COVID-19 surprise
Apr 29, 2020

Three intelligence dictums recapitulated in the US’s COVID-19 surprise

Where the stakes are high, political leaders have few incentives to take intelligence warnings seriously.

The future of war: Less fantastic, more practical
Feb 01, 2020

The future of war: Less fantastic, more practical

Despite the hype, some of the biggest impacts from the use of AI and applied machine learning in the defence context are mundane.

Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal: A diplomatic victory for China?
Oct 23, 2019

Xi Jinping’s visit to Nepal: A diplomatic victory for China?

Of the 20 agreements signed between Nepal and China, four of the agreements have strong security components that aim at developing greater engagements

Indian startups and Chinese venture capital: The strategic dimension
Sep 11, 2019

Indian startups and Chinese venture capital: The strategic dimension

How does it play out in the larger technology war involving the US and China?

West Asia’s tech-talent balance
Aug 13, 2019

West Asia’s tech-talent balance

Arabs got talent, and they need technology to make its best use. But how much of reliance is enough?

Artificial Intelligence in military operations: Where does India stand?
Aug 02, 2019

Artificial Intelligence in military operations: Where does India stand?

Policymakers must have a sound understanding of the objectives that AI seeks to achieve in the strategic context of India to disseminate artificial in

AI policy analysis: AIDP of China vs. India’s NITI Aayog AI policy paper
Jul 10, 2019

AI policy analysis: AIDP of China vs. India’s NITI Aayog AI policy paper

Tighter collaboration between private, government, nonprofits and educational institutes will be the key to India’s development of new-age technolog

Emerging technologies are transforming health systems in Africa
Jun 06, 2019

Emerging technologies are transforming health systems in Africa

The advances of science and technology are outpacing existing care and payment models, regulatory structures, and other governance systems.

White House 2019 economic report puts a shine on AI and its meaning for the future of work: Top takeaways
May 14, 2019

White House 2019 economic report puts a shine on AI and its meaning for the future of work: Top takeaways

Policy makers are asked to worry deeply about how workers will deal with the costs of reskilling if they aren’t paid for the duration of the reskill

India must take the lead in the AI norms race
Mar 20, 2019

India must take the lead in the AI norms race

As Beijing sets its sights on dominance of the seas, it is also working to enhance its deep sea capabilities through “intelligentised” (智能) mi

Response to Pulwama attack: Firefighting or dawn of a new policy
Feb 26, 2019

Response to Pulwama attack: Firefighting or dawn of a new policy

A scrutiny of the Pulwama terrorist attack clearly shows it is undoubtedly a result of serious security lapse along with intelligence failure.

Emerging technologies and India’s nuclear deterrent
Feb 05, 2019

Emerging technologies and India’s nuclear deterrent

Rapid transformation in disruptive technologies is going to change the nature of nuclear deterrence. Artificial intelligence, cyber weapons, hypersoni

ORF takes on the budget
Feb 02, 2019

ORF takes on the budget

How does the interim budget impact some of the most critical facets of the Indian economy?

ORF takes on the budget
Feb 02, 2019

ORF takes on the budget

How does the interim budget impact some of the most critical facets of the Indian economy?

Reskilling without a sunset clause
Jan 04, 2019

Reskilling without a sunset clause

Reskilling is all the rage as toilers of every creed scramble to upgrade skills so that they can remain valuable when tasks most suitable to machine l

Why India needs urgent police reforms
Dec 04, 2018

Why India needs urgent police reforms

Internal security is very much a prerogative of police and efficient policing is needed in order to tackle threats. But for that, the police system ne

Chelsea Finn is teaching Brett the Robot how the world works
Nov 22, 2018

Chelsea Finn is teaching Brett the Robot how the world works

In typical applications of robotics, you have a robot that does one thing over and over again. If something goes wrong, the robot is not able to adapt

Your AI versus my AI: Zachary Lipton on the dangers of the AI and machine learning hype cycle
Nov 19, 2018

Your AI versus my AI: Zachary Lipton on the dangers of the AI and machine learning hype cycle

Is what we commonly call artificial intelligence really that or is it something else being called AI simply to push the idea of forward progress? This

A new class of zero days and autonomous weapons systems
Nov 12, 2018

A new class of zero days and autonomous weapons systems

What if there was a new class of zero days on the horizon? What if, even if it was a known zero day, it wouldn’t necessarily be able to be patched,

“Thinking about AI as a drop in the cost of prediction is transformational” — Avi Goldfarb
Aug 30, 2018

“Thinking about AI as a drop in the cost of prediction is transformational” — Avi Goldfarb

Human roles that are all about prediction are not going to be important, but it’s the other aspects — judgement and action — that will gain in v

There’s a bot of gold on the AI horizon, but is past data enough to navigate the future?
Aug 18, 2018

There’s a bot of gold on the AI horizon, but is past data enough to navigate the future?

Artificial intelligence is turbocharging individual companies’ stock market valuations but overall economic productivity is sliding. These are not c

“Managers who know how to use machine learning will replace managers who don’t” — Erik Brynjolfsson
Aug 07, 2018

“Managers who know how to use machine learning will replace managers who don’t” — Erik Brynjolfsson

Want to future proof your job? Embrace machine learning and you’ll likely stay ahead of your colleague who chose to take a ringside seat, says Erik

Using AI and blockchain tech for transparency in urban governance
Jun 22, 2018

Using AI and blockchain tech for transparency in urban governance

People are going to ask government for answers, and the solutions will lie in getting transparency through new-age systems.

Where the gig worker fits inside the firm
May 15, 2018

Where the gig worker fits inside the firm

Reports of young guns ‘crushing it’ in the gig economy are still hard to come by. It gets lonely and the so-called flexible companies make tough d

10 themes that will dominate headlines in 2018
Jan 02, 2018

10 themes that will dominate headlines in 2018

If 2017 saw the rise of the ‘spin’ — any event or news was butchered and battered until it yielded a pre-determined narrative — 2018 will see

Lethal Autonomous Dragon: China’s approach to artificial intelligence weapons
Nov 15, 2017

Lethal Autonomous Dragon: China’s approach to artificial intelligence weapons

China does not want to be at the receiving end of a technological asymmetry in what may very well be the conventional approach to war in the future. I