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As edtech platforms move towards deploying artificial intelligence tools to enhance offerings, a clear divide has emerged within various segments of the industry.While higher education and upskilling startups are anticipating greater benefits from the technology, those servicing schools and students on a large scale may run into some headwinds, founders and executives at edtech companies told ET.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

India’s AI market is growing at a CAGR of 25-35% and is projected to reach around $17 billion by 2027, according to a new report by BCG and IT industry apex body Nasscom. As the investments in AI continue to increase, the demand for AI talent in India is also expected to grow at 15% CAGR by 2027, the report, titled "AI Powered Tech Services: A Roadmap for Future Ready Firms; AI & GenAI's Role in Turbocharging the Industry” launched on the sidelines of the Nasscom Technology & Leadership Forum 2024 said.Elevate…

A former FBI informant charged with fabricating accusations of corruption against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, told law enforcement that he has been in contact with high-level Russian intelligence officials who were “involved in passing a story” about Hunter Biden. According to a Justice Department filing released Tuesday, Alexander Smirnov — who was arrested last Thursday in Las Vegas — told authorities who conducted his custody interview that he had “contacts with multiple foreign intelligence…

Excessive focus on the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) by most major companies is hindering the experimentation necessary for progress in the field, a panel of experts at the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum in Mumbai, including Incedo CEO Nitin Seth and Fractal Analytics co-founder Srikanth Velamakanni said.Seth, who is also the former chief operating officer of e-commerce giant Flipkart emphasised the tendency of large companies to overemphasise on AI governance and suggested it is essential to move…

Policymakers and regulators across the world must think of regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in the next 5-10 years to prevent misuse of such tools in affecting nation states by politicizing the spread of information, said Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder, Inflection AI and DeepMind.“I think the negative consequences here are likely to arise simply because so many people with different organisational interests, different religious and political values will not only affect information but also the real world in practice.…

Samsung introduced its new suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features called Galaxy AI at its January Galaxy Unpacked event alongside the launch of the Galaxy S24 series. Many new features such as Call Assist, Interpreter mode, Transcript Assist, and more were introduced on the Galaxy S24 series. Now, the South Korean tech giant has integrated the AI features with its native virtual assistant Bixby globally, allowing users to control some of the features through direct voice commands.Making the announcement…

Even as stakeholders in the tech ecosystem talk about the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), Microsoft India and South Asia president Puneet Chandok said the technology is not hyped enough, considering the elevated expectations of the next generation.Speaking during a panel discussion with Haptik CEO Aakrit Vaish at the Mumbai Tech Week on Monday, Chandok emphasised the transformative impact AI could have on various aspects of daily life.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

After Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times, died last month, his brother Michael Lelyveld went online to see how he was being remembered. He found obituaries in major news outlets, as expected. But he also found other, unexpected portraits of his brother.At least half a dozen biographies were published on Amazon in the days immediately following Lelyveld's death. Several of them were available for purchase on the very day he died. The books, he said, described his brother as a chain smoker,…

OpenAI revealed a tool on Thursday that can generate videos from text prompts.The new model, nicknamed Sora after the Japanese word for “sky”, can produce realistic footage up to a minute long that adheres to a user’s instructions on both subject matter and style. According to a company blogpost, the model is also able to create a video based on a still image or extend existing footage with new material.“We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help…

Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience – taking things slowly for a novice like me – that every single person we know and love will soon be dead. They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines. “The difficulty is, people do not realise,” Yudkowsky says mildly, maybe sounding just a bit frustrated, as if irritated by a neighbour’s leaf blower or let down by the last pages of a novel. “We have a shred of a chance that…