Hello, AI
When we say "Hello, AI", we are welcoming both great worry and immense opportunity.
Big Talk
BadeMian reflects on yesterday, today and tomorrow
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Chatting with ChatGPT
ChatGPT also did another very un-Google-like thing. It ended every response with a set of connected questions. If you asked it why Virat Kohli chose jersey number 18, it ended by asking: “Would you like me to tell you why Smriti Mandhana also picked number 18?”
ChatGuru
LLMs like ChatGPT are going to become very big disruptors in university education. Many skills considered to be desirable today are going to be significantly devalued tomorrow ... or simply fade away.
Back then …
We didn't know then that probability would be at the very core of today's AI revolution.
The Internship experience
Students now attach undue importance to internships, and demand good internship placements. I also sense disdain for what’s taught in the classroom because "ChatGPT is (apparently) more useful".
Skill or chance?
A long conversation with Grok AI to discuss the fuzzy nature of online fantasy games
The canine invasion
We have started seeing dogs very differently now. A dog is now an loving companion; earlier it was a loyal guardian.
Big data and cricket
T20 cricket, with its faster pace, growing popularity and growing money around it, would definitely benefit with an infusion of intelligent analytics.
The Indian Classroom
The classroom is perhaps too formal, rather like a courtroom, and the 'correct' code of conduct is being continually reinforced. This must change.
Evaluating essays
I made the startling discovery that while S essays were often shabbily written, the E essays could be quite stylish, while some N essays were positively lyrical.