Ai for Business

Image by Rajashree Rajadhyax WhatsApp is one app that we use everyday. I’m sure with many that is the default way of staying connected with the world. Its easy to use, always available and the best thing is that its associated with your mobile number. I think the success behind WhatsApp over any other messaging tool is its association with the mobile number. While the interface is clean and simple and there is no bragging about use of AI, yet AI is working in the background to make our WhatsApp experience smooth. Let’s do a deep dive. Smart and optimised message delivery When you send a message on WhatsApp, it feels simple and instant. But real-world networks are messy. Signals drop, phones switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, battery savers kick in, and the person on the other side may be offline. Yet messages usually do reach. This is because WhatsApp doesn’t just send a message once and forget about it. That would be a purely programmed or deterministic behaviour. Instead, when the...

  I was reading an article and they talked about some 10 breakthrough technologies for this year. While my interest generally is around AI, I was keen to know which other technologies are defining the future. I thought of sharing them with you. Of course this list has been curated after reading articles from the top research analysts firms like Gartner, MIT and others Geopatriation Geopatriation means moving company data and applications out of global public clouds and back into local, sovereign, or regional environments to reduce geopolitical risk. As global uncertainty grows, organizations are becoming more concerned about data sovereignty, regulations, and long-term reliability, especially for AI workloads. This shift is happening because political tensions, data localization rules, and foreign laws can interrupt cloud access or expose sensitive data to other governments. By geopatriating, companies can stay compliant, keep their systems running smoothly, and maintain stronger c...

  I still remember the day I created my Gmail account. It felt like a small milestone. Back then, email was something you signed up for with a bit of excitement. I mainly used it to exchange notes with friends, share college updates, and coordinate group work. In India, Hotmail was the big name at the time, and having an email ID felt new and slightly special. Fast forward to today, and Gmail has quietly woven itself into everyday life. My day begins with emails and often ends with them too. I opened the app without thinking about it. It feels familiar, almost automatic. Yet in those few seconds of scrolling, replying, and searching, a lot is happening. Gmail shows me what I am likely to care about, helps me frame quick responses, neatly groups conversations, and finds old emails in moments. What makes all this feel so effortless is not just smart design or solid engineering. There is a quiet layer of AI working in the background, constantly learning and adjusting. And that is exac...

  AI is a really powerful tool, but if not safeguarded can be misused causing serious damage. AI is as good as the knowledge it is fed with at the time of training and the intentions of the trainers. There have been a number of incidents when an AI tool had to be withdrawn because it was gullible to training at the hands of people with incorrect intentions.  Take for example Gallatica, the AI chatbot by Meta released in 2022. It was trained on 48 million scientific papers and designed to help researchers "organize science" and write scientific articles. Within two days, the demo was pulled offline because users found it easily generated highly authoritative-sounding, yet factually incorrect, biased, or racist "scientific" papers and misinformation (e.g., an authoritative-sounding article on "The benefits of eating crushed glass"). Galactica's failure highlighted the risk of LLM "hallucinations”, generating nonsensical or false information that sou...