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 The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Wireless Personal Area Network as also Wireless Local Area Network (WPAN/WLAN) registration to all entities engaged in such businesses.DoT has said that non-compliance may lead to withdrawal or disconnection of telecom resources obtained from the authorised telecom licensees. Accordingly, it said, all business entities (companies, government departments, organisations, partnership firms, LLPs, institutions, undertakings, proprietorship…

On numerous occasions during Star Trek: The Next Generation’s run, Lt. Cmdr. Data, an android, communicates with the ship’s computer via spoken English. The writers want us, the audience, to hear their conversation, of course. But would it make sense for two AI-based systems to interact with each other via a conversation in English (or any other natural, aka ‘human’ language*)? Now that generative AI has taken off, this question no longer belongs in the realm of science fiction. We’ve struggled with machine-to-machine…