If you start tracing the origins of anything in India, nothing is short of at least 2000 years old. Imagine our surprise when we realised the same is true even for AI in India. Some interesting stories from ancient times there - Barbarik, Ashok's fight with robot warriors, and even Kumbhakarna.

AI in modern India started patchy but has gathered momentum recently. India has chosen a path of application-led AI development. We have chosen to focus on population use cases per our DPI design philosophy. Bhashini, Karya and the world's first Hindi LLM - OpenHathi.

That should be enough to get you interested. Enjoy the tech with AI tadka episode.

Despite our population, there are no Indian books in the Top 10 Most Read List. Disturbing!!!. Recovering from that discovery, we explore the world of "Join the Dots', Atto Seconds and broken ice cream machines. 

How would an LLM respond to the question of whether the earth was flat or round in the 1500s? Could it have saved Galileo?

Have fun "shorting". Is that even a word? 😆🤣🤣😂😂

Be they artists, performers or athletes, to stay on top of their craft, everyone needs to keep testing their limits. And that also holds true for the three of us as well. How much fun can we really have? How can we do one better? How can we find another way to make everyone smile?

Enter - The Jingle Project.

Why did we even take this up? 
- Because we are a strange brand of nutty. 
- Because we love troubling ourselves with new challenges.
- Because we love the process of fun-making.

An interesting phenomenon we now see unfolding is our "jealous" and full-of-FOMO friends wanting to join the parade, too.

So here is our co-created MTV avatar set to the music of an old classic with a dash of tech and a whole new level of madness.

Birthed by Salone Ghosh. Lyrics by Kaushik Chatterjee. Sung by Jayashree Rammohan. Music Arrangement by Tushar Sharma. Recorded at The Furtados School of Music. Music Video enacted by Sheetal, Nilesh and Samiran 

One of the most enduring images of 2023 was Elon Musk carrying a sink to the Twitter office. The message "Let that sink in". And sink it did. Twitter and everyone associated with it. So much so that it became a variable "X".

That got us thinking. Let us do an episode about all that went wrong with tech in 2023 (What an idea, Sirji). Of course, there were good things too, but they were mostly restricted to our podcast. The year started with an awesome trailer, followed by some great guests, 3TB Shorts, Cool GenAI artwork, a Jingle, carousels and more.

From where we stand, this was really "Looking Like a Wow".

Happy New Year – may your batteries be full, your Wi-Fi strong, and your virtual meetings, mercifully short. See you on the other side.

Picture a gleaming kitchen, not of stainless steel and polished marble, but of code and algorithms. Here, the head chef isn't human, but a complex generative AI armed with a digital Swiss army knife that cuts, slices, dices, and blends through lines of code. The pantry? Forget neatly labelled jars and neatly stacked shelves. This is a digital garbage pile – fragments of text, snippets of code and images culled from the internet's deepest corners.

What happens next is more euphonic than gastronomic - this is a podcast - silly.

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From ancient mummies navigating modern red tape to towns tweaking their names for reasons you will shortly understand, the world's tapestry of tales never ceases to amuse and astonish. Which is where we come in. In fact, this mummy's travel tale is a reminder of how time, in both literal and bureaucratic senses, can be surprisingly elastic, very unlike the "Jiffy" in our episode.

Join us yet again for a regular diet of "battle the traffic with wit".

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In the land of AI, where the code rivers flow,
ChatGPT sips water, just so you know.
For every few prompts, a half-liter it drains,
In the quest to answer, with computational brains.

The mighty GPT-3, in its training days prime,
Used 85,000 gallons - quite the climb!
With $11.3 billion raised, it's a financial feat,
But its impact on our world? That's still a seat.

Now, let's peek at Water.org, what a noble sight,
60 million with safe water, shining bright.
Mobilizing capital, $4.8 billion in their chart,
Average loan just $368, playing its part.

Back to OpenAI, with staff count high,
770 souls with a salary that can touch the sky.
Median pay at $800,000, oh what a bill,
Add training, cloud costs, as Chandler would thrill.

"Could this BE any more... COSTLY?" he'd jest,
In the realm of AI, it's a financial quest.
But let's not forget, amidst cost and din,
The potential of AI, where wonders begin.

This episode we traverse, through finance and lore,
Exploring AI's value, what it has in store.
In the end, it's a mix, of cost and worth,
As we navigate its impact on our Earth.

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Hum Shayar to Nahin. Magar......We love to rhyme. So here goes

In Silicon Valley, where tech dreams ignite,
There's a squad of women, in code and gadgets who are pretty bright.
They code like a breeze, debug without a fight,
In a world where ones and zeros dance day and night.

In this high-tech realm, James Bond might roam,
With his sleek gadgets, far from his London home.
Sipping his secret martini, shaken with a foam,
He marvels at the tech in this innovation dome.

And out on the green, where the Google signs gleam,
Goats graze calmly, as if part of a dream.
They munch, and they bask in the digital stream,
With tech and Border Collie in harmony, it would seem.

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